Read G. Orwell, ‘Killing an Elephant’ I think that was the name of the short story. It breaks your heart.
Or Tembo, by Howard HIll, who I believe was the first (white) man to hunt an elephant with bow and arrow.
Actually, some now believe that Orwell’s story may not have been the story of an actually killing. He wrote a lot of “non-fiction” type of observations that were not factually true. That was a popular style of writing at the time. But he really caught the look and feel of mob action behind the story, didn’t he?