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 The audio details how Michael Tuller returned to WildCat Haven on
Saturday night to discover 36-year-old Renee Radziwon-Chapman
bloodied and lying on her back in the fenced-in enclosure.
Radziwon-Chapman, the sanctuary's head keeper, was alone at the
suburban Portland facility when the attack occurred.
In the recording, Tuller tells dispatchers it's dark and he can't
see, but he enters the enclosure with the cougars anyway.
While dragging out Radziwon-Chapman by the boots, he repeats, "Oh my
God, Renee" over and over. He's also heard screaming, "Get out of
here, go!" at the two wild cats circling him.
Once Tuller gets Radziwon-Chapman out, the dispatcher asks Tuller if
he can perform CPR on the woman. Tuller flatly answers: "No." He
then tells the dispatcher that Radziwon-Chapman is beyond hope.
Autopsy results later showed Radziwon-Chapman died at the scene of
multiple bite wounds concentrated at the head and the neck.
In a statement earlier this week, WildCat Haven lawyer Dale Johnson
said the keeper broke the sanctuary's safety protocols when she
locked only one of three cougars in a smaller cage and went into the
main enclosure with the other two cougars.
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Johnson also said the gate to the smaller cage where the three
animals should've been locked up was operating properly.
But Radziwon-Chapman's family said they don't believe the wife and
new mother broke any rules, and she had expressed concerns about
working at the facility alone.
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said it concluded no crime was
committed. State and federal regulators are still investigating.
[Associated
Press; GOSIA WOZNIACKA]
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