{"id":41280,"date":"2025-05-12T12:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/man-died-of-blunt-force-injuries-at-us-zoo-after-suspected-kangaroo-fight\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:50:23","slug":"man-died-of-blunt-force-injuries-at-us-zoo-after-suspected-kangaroo-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/man-died-of-blunt-force-injuries-at-us-zoo-after-suspected-kangaroo-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Man died of \u2018blunt force injuries\u2019 at US zoo after suspected kangaroo fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina officials investigating death of Eric Slate, 52, and conditions of the petting zoo owned by his brother<\/p>\n<p>Officials in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/south-carolina\">South Carolina<\/a> are investigating the death of a man who was believed to have been killed while fighting a kangaroo in an enclosure at a children\u2019s petting zoo.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Slate, 52, died of \u201cmultiple blunt [force] injuries\u201d, according to Tamara Willard, the chief deputy coroner of Horry county, as <a href=\"https:\/\/wpde.com\/news\/local\/animal-related-incident-results-in-death-investigation-horry-co-police-say-county-south-carolina-loris-adult-non-domesticated-released-available-autopsy-coroner\">reported by WPDE News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/12\/man-died-kangaroo-fight-south-carolina-zoo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina officials investigating death of Eric Slate, 52, and conditions of the petting zoo owned by his brother Officials in South Carolina are investigating the death of a man who was believed to have been killed while fighting a kangaroo in an enclosure at a children\u2019s petting zoo. Eric Slate, 52, died of \u201cmultiple &#8230; <a title=\"Man died of \u2018blunt force injuries\u2019 at US zoo after suspected kangaroo fight\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/man-died-of-blunt-force-injuries-at-us-zoo-after-suspected-kangaroo-fight\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Man died of \u2018blunt force injuries\u2019 at US zoo after suspected kangaroo fight\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}