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The Latest on a prosecutor's decision on whether to file c-harges against the family of a 3-year-old boy who entered a gorilla exhibit

THE parents of a three-year-old boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, leading to the endangered animal’s death, said he is “doing well”.

The family of the toddler who fell into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo said their child is “doing well” and thanked zookeepers who fatally shot an endangered gorilla in order to rescue the 3-year-old boy.

Police are to investigate the circumstances around the killing of a gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo after a four-year-old boy fell into his enclosure.

THE parents of the boy who climbed over a zoo barricade and fell into a gorilla enclosure, leading to the endangered animal’s death, have received terrifying threats.

A Cincinnati Zoo employee shot the gorilla with a rifle when the child was in between his legs,