“said she decided to shoot the monkey, fearing it would get away and possibly would become a threat to children at another house in the neighborhood.”
So the monkey was not an immediate threat to her children or any other children, making the headline complete bs. She just wanted to shoot it and that was her excuse. The “might become a threat” standard would justify shooting half the world’s population.
See how you just equated shooting a monkey with shooting humans as moraly equivalent? Its not.
But....She did not really even need to justify it as a potential threat if she could see it from her porch. It existed as a threat to her and her children.
The Police were shooting the Monkeys that escaped the crates on the spot something widely reported. It was widely described as an aggressive animal, i.e., dangerous. A lot of people shoot coyotes and prairie dogs that “might become a threat” to people, flocks, or even just their lawns or pasture land. Cows often break their legs in badger or prairie dog holes somewhere in the back pasture, never right up by the barn where its easy to get to them.
That said, she was a good shot. Give her an Annie Oakley award!