Visitors Return to See the Tiger Involved in William Chapman’s Death as Enclosure Reopens
The UK zoo exhibit where a former child actor was mauled to death by a tiger has been reopened — with the killer big cat seen relaxing in his enclosure Friday.
Visitors packed into the “Land of Tigers” at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in northern England to see Siberian tiger Altai less than a week after killing William Chapman, the troubled 24-year-old who died Saturday after climbing two fences to get into the off-limits enclosure.
Altai was seen calmly lying on his stomach in his pen as staffers calmly answered visitors’ questions.
The exhibit had been closed since Saturday when Chapman hopped a pair of fences and approached the tiger with open arms before being dragged to a wooded area and killed as onlookers watched in horror.
Chapman died at the scene. The coroner’s office listed his cause of death as “multiple traumatic injuries” from an animal interaction.
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The UK zoo exhibit where a former child actor was mauled to death by a tiger has been reopened — with the killer big cat seen relaxing…