- 9-year-old bat boy accidentally struck, killed at baseball game
- Jessica Alba's sunscreen under fire as parents post photos of their sunburned kids
- Balloon released at father's grave somehow finds its way home
- Family remembers late son by hiding toy cars
- Idaho huntress posts controversial picture with dead giraffe
Vandals targeted Dr. Walter Palmer's Marco Island home in response to Palmer killing Cecil the Lion, FOX 4 reports.
The words "Lion Killer" were found spray-painted on the garage door, along with pigs feet scattered on the driveway and animal crackers on his lawn. Walter Zalisko, an investigator hired to protect Palmer's vacation home, said the vandals appeared to damage only the outside of the house, the Naples Daily News reports.
“We have people from our office stopping by periodically to check on the property,” Zalisko told the Naples Daily News. “Apparently someone came in late last night or early in the morning and vandalized it.”
Palmer admitted to killing Cecil on a hunting trip but claimed he didn’t know the lion was protected and “considered a national treasure,” FOX 4 reports. He has been in hiding ever since.
Others have come to the home to protest by putting signs and stuffed animals in his yard, according to the Naples Daily News. Zalisko’s company, Global Investigative Group, will be putting security cameras outside the home and “armed investigators will also be on the property at different times of day,” Zalisko said.
Marco Island Police opened a misdemeanor criminal mischief investigation after receiving several calls about vandalism.
“We knew the background information and about the potential problems that could occur at the home when something like this happens,” Marco Island Police Capt. David Baer told the Naples Daily News.
Read more at scrippsmedia.com and naplesnews.com
About the Author
