It's cold, rainy and windy in the Sunset District today - not a good day to go to the zoo.But a small crowd of curious residents and tourists gathered at the gates this morning as the San Francisco Zoo reopened, nine days after an escaped tiger killed a San Jose teen and injured two of his friends before police shot it dead.
Just inside the gates, a memorial for 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. and the Siberian tiger named Tatiana continues to grow. Bouquets, small stuffed tigers and notes that flapped in the wind were placed at the bottom of a bronze tiger statue built in 1942.
"I came to mourn the death of Tatiana," said Susan Pettitt, a Santa Clara resident who has visited the zoo each week for the past three years. She brought a card, a stuffed tiger and three photos she had taken of Tatiana, and placed them in front of the statue.
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