Report: Zookeeper screamed for help before tiger attack
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A zookeeper screamed for help into her radio before she was fatally attacked by a Malayan tiger, but the 350-pound animal crushed her neck before her co-workers could reach her, an autopsy report released Friday showed.
The Palm Beach County medical examiner determined that Stacey Konwiser, 38, died of a fractured spine, a lacerated jugular and other neck injuries suffered when she was attacked on April 15 by the tiger named Hati.
The male tiger, then 12 years old, had been at the zoo for two years on loan from the zoo in Fort Worth, Texas.
Konwiser had entered the tigers’ night house, an area where they eat and sleep that is not visible to the public, to prepare for a presentation.