Zookeeper identified in jaguar attack

Published January 21, 2009 12:00am ET



The zookeeper who was attacked and critically injured by a jaguar at the Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo in Thurmont this weekend was identified Tuesday as Deborah Gregory, of Severn, according to Maryland state police.

Gregory, 32, remained in critical, but stable, condition Tuesday at University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore after she was attacked about 11 a.m. Sunday while working in the interior den area of the jaguar enclosure at the Frederick County zoo, about an hour outside Baltimore.

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