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Tiger Attack Probe Suspended

SF police find no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing by victims

By Katherine Thompson, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 30, 2008 10:32 AM CST

(Newser) – The investigation into last month's attack at the San Francisco Zoo has found no conclusive evidence that the victims committed a crime in taunting Tatiana the tiger, and police have suspended the case, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The probe had been focusing on cell phone records and car contents of Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal, friends of the boy who was killed by Tatiana.

Although the Dhaliwal brothers admit that they and Carlos Sousa Jr. had been shouting at the tiger while standing on a railing, they deny throwing anything at the animal. A zoo spokesman maintains that "something highly unusual happened that provoked Tatiana," but "pending new witnesses being interviewed and/or new evidence being produced," the police say they will not be discovering what that provocation might have been.

Sean Field Connolly, deputy city attorney for the city of San Francisco, appears during a news conference after a court hearing in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008. The court hearing was about... (Associated Press)

Tatiana, a female Siberian tiger that killed one person and injured two others, is seen in the lion house at the San Francisco Zoo in this Sept. 6, 2007, file photo. The investigation into whether she... (Associated Press)

Kulbir Dhaliwal attends the burial of his friend Carlos Sousa Jr. in San Jose, Calif., in this Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008, file photo. Sousa Jr. was killed by a Siberian tiger that escaped its enclosure at... (Associated Press)

Attorney Shepard S. Kopp, from the office of Mark Geragos who is representing Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal, answers questions during a news conference after a court hearing in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday,... (Associated Press)

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