SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco man has unveiled a sculpture of the Siberan tiger that killed a teenager and injured two others in last year’s Christmas Day mauling at the San Francisco Zoo.
Sculptor Jon Engdahl says he considers the tiger, named Tatiana, a victim. Police shot and killed the 243-pound animal after it escaped from its enclosure and fatally mauled 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. The tiger also injured Sousa’s friends, brothers Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal.
Engdahl unveiled the sculpture Thursday on the city’s Telegraph Hill. The sculpture made from broken tiles and concrete is meant to look like the tiger when it was young.
Sousa’s parents sued the city and zoo Tuesday, alleging zoo officials ignored warnings that the tiger’s enclosure walls were dangerously low.
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