The first trailer for 20th Century Studios’ adaptation of Stephen King‘s short story The Boogeyman dropped on Sunday. The horror-thriller follows a high school student and her younger sister who are mourning the recent death of their mother, with little support from their father, a therapist who’s dealing with his own pain. When one of his patients pays a surprise visit to their home, he leaves behind a supernatural being that preys on the suffering of people. Sophie Thatcher and Chris Messina star, alongside Vivien Lyra Blair, Marin Ireland, Madison Hu, LisaGay Hamilton and David Dastmalchian. The Boogeyman opens June 2, 2023, exclusively in theaters nationwide…
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is prepping an Amazon TV series based on the popular video game-turned-action movie franchise Tomb Raider. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the Fleabag creator and star is attached to write the scripts for Tomb Raider. Waller-Bridge does not plan to star in the TV adaptation. Tomb Raider is Waller-Bridge’s latest project in the works at Amazon. She’s also developing an adaptation of Claudia Lux’s book Sign Here…
Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston are the next a-list stars set to team up for a new film. Variety reports the two actresses will star in an upcoming feature comedy from Palm Springs filmmaker Max Barbakowwill that will see the two actresses swapping bodies. No further details are available at this time. The film follows the surprise success of other star-driven comedies, including Ticket to Paradise with Roberts and George Clooney, and The Lost City starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum…
Annie Wersching, the actress best known for her roles as Renee Walker in the Fox TV drama 24, and Julia Brasher on Amazon’s studios’ Bosch, died from cancer on Sunday morning in Los Angeles, a rep for the actress told The Hollywood Reporter. She was 45. Wersching, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2020, most recently had a series of recurring roles on Star Trek: Picard, where she played the Borg Queen, as well as The Rookie, where she appeared as Rosalind Dyer, a murderer who escapes prison. Wershing’s other roles included Leslie Dean, the mother of alien superhero Karolina on Marvel’s Runaways, as well as television producer Amelia Joffe in 80 episodes of the daytime soap General Hospital and multi-episode arcs on The CW’s The Vampire Diaries and NBC’s Timeless…
Lisa Loring, the actress who played Wednesday Addams in ABC’s live-action TV adaptation of The Addams Family, died Saturday night at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank of complications from a stroke caused by high blood pressure, her daughter Vanessa Foumberg told The Hollywood Reporter. She was 64. Loring began work on the half-hour The Addams Family comedy series at age 5-and-a-half, able to memorize her lines even before she could read. The Addams Family ran for two seasons, a total of 64 episodes from 1964-66. Almost all of the original cast was reunited in 1977 for the NBC television movie Halloween with the New Addams Family. With Loring’s death, John Astin, who played Gomez Addams, is the last surviving member of the original cast…
Avatar: The Way of Water continued its reign at #1 at the domestic box office for a seventh consecutive week with an estimated $15.7 million haul. The sequel has collected $2.117 billion globally, moving it into the 4th all-time spot at the worldwide box office, passing Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens’ 2.071 billion-dollar gross.
James Cameron has now directed three of the top four highest-grossing films of all time — The first Avatar at #1, Titanic in third, and now Avatar: The Way of Water in fourth. Second place currently belongs to Avengers: Endgame.
Avatar: The Way of Water is a 20th Century film, which is owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish held steady in second place, adding an estimated $10.6 million and bringing its North America gross to $140.8 million.
A Man Called Otto grabbed third place, delivering an estimated $6.8 million, followed by M3GAN in fourth place with an estimated $6.4 million.
Rounding out the top five is the action thriller from India, Pathaan, opening with an estimated $6 million.
The weekend’s only other new major release, the sci-fi thriller Infinity Pool, starring Alexander Skarsgård and Cleopatra Coleman, debuted in eighth place, delivering an estimated $2.7 million.
(NEW YORK) — Layoffs have battered the tech industry in 2023, carrying over a series of job cuts that began last year. In all, about 50,000 people have lost their positions this month.
Tech giants such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon have led the sector in the size of their cuts. While a slew of smaller companies like Spotify, Vox Media and IBM have imposed layoffs too.
Sales at top tech firms have retreated from the blistering pace attained during the pandemic, when billions across the world were forced into isolation.
Company officials have often cited economic uncertainty and recession fears in their layoff announcements.
While the large-scale job cuts sound economic alarm, they mark a more immediate, intimate rupture for the workers who suffer them. ABC News spoke with three laid-off workers about what the experience was like and how they’re coping with it.
Nneoma Ajiwe, Spotify
What started as a normal morning turned into a surprise for 29-year-old Nneoma Ajiwe.
Around 5:14 am, Ajiwe says she received a calendar invite requesting her attendance in a one-on-one meeting with someone on Spotify’s HR team.
“It’s funny because the night before I was texting my coworker Tiktoks that we were laughing at and she’s like ‘I don’t mean to alarm you’ and sent this Bloomberg article about Spotify doing layoffs as early as this week,” Ajiwe said. “I told her that we’re probably okay.”
Little did she know, she’d be one of the 6% of employees, roughly around 600, to be slashed from Spotify’s workforce this year.
About an hour after Ajiwe received her calendar invite, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek sent out an email to employees breaking the news.
“I was literally driving on my way to the gym,” Ajiwe said.
The Houston native is a 2016 graduate from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in public relations. She’d worked for a plethora of companies in the industry such as Billboard, Genius, Sirius XM and XXL Magazine but always saw her career at Spotify as “unattainable.”
Ajiwe had applied five times before she was granted the job of social marketing manager for Spotify for Artists and Spotify Charts in May 2022.
Having been laid off from a different employer before, Ajiwe shared that she felt many different emotions this time around but the one that she felt just days after the Monday layoff was “annoyed.”
“This sucks because I particularly loved this team. I just got there. I loved my job,” Ajiwe said. “I’m still shocked and just trying to sort through feelings and think about what I need to do.”
In response to a request for comment, Spotify provided the memo about the layoffs that Ek sent to employees.
“Like many other leaders, I hoped to sustain the strong tailwinds from the pandemic and believed that our broad global business and lower risk to the impact of a slowdown in ads would insulate us,” Ek said. “In hindsight, I was too ambitious in investing ahead of our revenue growth.”
Although layoffs can cause an immediate bout of financial trouble, Ajiwe works as a photographer on the side and calls herself a “good saver.”
Because of this, she figures she will take a month or so to figure out her next move.
“I wasn’t devastated by the fact that I may not have any money coming in for three months, because I know I have stuff that I do on the side. But it does suck because this was the highest I was making. It was my career,” she said.
“I just think that with every opportunity that has closed for me, something better has always happened. I firmly believe that God is going to put me in a better place,” Ajiwe said.
Jonathan Bellack, Google
Jonathan Bellack, 50, who worked at Google for nearly 15 years, said he knew his tenure was nearly over — and he wanted it that way. Two months ago, he told the company he sought to leave early in 2023.
When he made the request, Bellack had expected Google to work with him on a plan for handing off his duties and saying goodbye. Instead, he didn’t hear much, he said.
“I had an inkling that something was up,” said Bellack, who lives in Montclair, New Jersey.
A self-described “workaholic,” Bellack had climbed the ranks at Google, becoming a senior director of product management who oversaw a team of about 45 employees devoted to developing systems that protect users from phishing schemes and other attacks.
Over time, he says he came to enjoy the mentorship and relationships more than other parts of the job, he said.
Bellack says he woke up at about 5 a.m. on Jan. 20 and found an email telling him “‘the company no longer has a position for you,'” he said.
His access to work email remained long enough for him to see another message announcing company-wide layoffs. Within minutes, he was locked out, he said.
In all, Google slashed 12,000 jobs or about 6% of its workforce. Having watched the onslaught of layoffs in the tech industry, Bellack wasn’t surprised.
“It seemed like the thing all the cool kids were doing in Silicon Valley,” he said of the layoffs.
Google did not respond to a request for comment. In an email to employees last Friday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said: “This will mean saying goodbye to some incredibly talented people we worked hard to hire and have loved working with.”
The layoffs left Bellack “very torn,” he said. The forced exit clarified his status, allowing him to move on; but he felt badly for colleagues who hadn’t expected it.
“A lot of people had no idea that this was happening or that they might be involved,” he said. “For them, it’s obviously a shock.”
Bellack is not worried about his financial outlook, he said, characterizing his previous job as “aggressively compensated.” Further, he praised the severance package provided by the company, which gave departing employees a 16-week base compensation with an extra two weeks for every year of employment.
A new project already awaits, Bellack said. He has launched a consulting service that advises start-ups and other companies on how to grow.
The father of two sons, aged 9 and 14, Bellack looks forward to lunches with his wife and time with his kids, he said. Their first big move: Getting a dog.
“If you put that in the article, my 9-year-old will be excited,” he said. “It’ll mean I’ve firmly committed.”
Phoebe Gavin, Vox
Phoebe Gavin, 37, the former executive director of talent and development at digital news outlet Vox, was laid off by the company last week. But she had been preparing for something like this ever since a “very scary situation” nearly a decade ago, she said.
In 2014, Gavin lost her job at a different media company. Lacking any savings, she had to “put everything on my credit card to get to my next job,” she said. Since then, she said, she began placing 10% of every paycheck into savings and later cultivated a side gig as a career coach.
Last Friday, Gavin had a previously scheduled meeting with her boss, who told her she was being let go and that she should take the rest of the day off, she said. Vox Media, the parent company of Vox, laid off 130 workers, which amounts to 7% of its staff.
Gavin, who worked at Vox for a little more than a year, oversaw the internal experience of employees, so she understood what her manager could and couldn’t say about the decision. “I wouldn’t have expected her to tell me more,” she said.
The news surprised Gavin, but she knew she worked in a tumultuous business.
“It was a little bit of shock and a little bit of ‘well, I work in the media industry,'” she said.
Vox Media declined comment about the layoffs. In a memo to employees last Friday, Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff cited “the challenging economic environment impacting our business and industry.”
After years of planning for a possible career setback, Gavin isn’t worried about her finances, she said. In fact, she’s ready to turn her side gig into a full-time job, having turned away clients from her career coaching business over the past six months.
“I’ve had to strike a balance of making sure the side hustle fit into side-hustle time — I don’t have to do that anymore,” she said. “Instead of 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., I’ll work on it from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.”
Gavin, who is Black, said her commitment to protecting her career owes in part to her knowledge that widespread job losses disproportionately affect people of color and women.
“That’s something that as a society we clearly have to take strong steps to address,” she said. “The system is not going to improve fast enough to keep us safe as individuals.”
To weather the mental health challenges of job flux, Gavin says she will draw on therapy that has helped her assemble an “emotional toolbox,” she said, noting that a more flexible schedule will help her do stress-relieving activities.
“I’m mostly focused on being able to go to the gym in the middle of the day when it’s empty,” she said. “One of the things that helps is picking up heavy things and putting them down.”
(WASHINGTON) — Seven U.S. senators are renewing calls for the Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation into the marketing of assault-style rifles after the unveiling of the JR-15, a long rifle the manufacturer advertises as a smaller AR-15 geared towards younger users.
Illinois-based WEE 1 Tactical unveiled the JR-15 in early 2022, advertising the weapon as a .22 caliber long rifle with the look and feel of an AR-15. The website for WEE1 Tactical advertises the gun as an ideal weapon to “teach a younger enthusiast.”
After originally writing a letter to the FTC in May 2022, a group of Senators held a press conference Thursday doubling down on their demand for intervention from the FTC.
“The last thing we need to be doing is shrinking deadly weapons of war and marketing them to young children,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said at the press conference.
An AR-15 is a type of semi-automatic rifle, Variants of the weapon have been linked to several high-profile mass shootings, including the recent massacres in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.
“What we have here is a scaled-down 20% scaled down 22 long rifle that looks and feels and operates just like mom or dad’s gun,” said Eric Schmid, the owner of Schmid Tool & Eng. Corp, the manufacturer of the JR-15, in an interview with organizers of The Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show in 2022.
The ammunition and safety features of the JR-15 also differ from the AR-15. While the AR-15 generally uses .223 Remington and 5.56 NATO ammunition, the JR-15 uses .22 caliber ammunition, according to gun experts.
According to Sam Sang, the co-owner of Equilibrium Firearms in Mineola, New York, the .22 ammunition generally has less recoil than .223 or 5.56 and is easier to control while shooting, however, he said it’s still lethal.
WEE 1 Tactical also advertises the gun as having a unique “tamper resistant safety” mechanism, which it claims requires the strength and dexterity of an adult to disengage.
“Parents and guardians wanting to pass on this American tradition have been purchasing small caliber, lighter youth training rifles for decades,” WEE 1 Tactical said in a statement to ABC News. “The JR-15 incorporates a patented safety mechanism that provides an added level of safety available on no other rifle in production.”
A group of 11 Democratic U.S. Senators initially penned a letter in May 2022 to Lina Khan, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, requesting the commission open an investigation into “the marketing of highly lethal firearms, including assault-style rifles, to impressionable young people.”
The letter took aim at WEE 1 Tactical for its “JR-15” marketing materials showing children shooting the gun and its former logo, depicting a skull and crossbones with a pacifier.
Since its initial launch, the branding of the weapon on WEE1 Tactical’s website does not include the original skull and crossbones logo; instead, their website prominently shows an image of a child aiming the rifle with the assistance of an adult.
In their letter, the senators accused WEE1 Tactical of being “just a single actor in a long line of unscrupulous gun manufacturers that have worked for years to market their products to a young audience.” They asked the FTC to take action against WEE1’s “unfair” marketing that could lead to harm or death.
The Federal Trade Commission declined ABC News’ request for comment.
Mark Olivia, the managing director of public affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, disputed that the rifle is being targeted to minors, adding that the rifle would have to be purchased by an adult who undergoes an FBI background check.
“It’s a misnomer that this product is being targeted and advertised to children,” he said. “Children can’t buy it.”
The senators said even if WEE1’s marketing did not contain any false statements, they could still result in harm, referring to the litigation between Remington Company and the parents of victims of the deadly Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 that killed 26 people. In that lawsuit, relatives of nine victims alleged that Remington targeted troubled young men in their marketing materials.
Those parents ended up settling with Remington for $73 million after a nearly-decade-long legal battle in Connecticut court.
Less than a year after initially writing their letter, the senators renewed their calls for FTC action this week, reiterating that while the JR-15 is a particularly egregious example, the shift towards marketing to children is an “industry-wide practice.”
“This is an open and shut case. This particular company is obviously marketing to kids. That’s the entire intention of the gun,” Sen. Chis Murphy, D-Conn., whose district includes Sandy Hook, said at the press conference. “But let’s just be clear, makers of AR-15s that are being sold today that we think of as being marketed primarily to adults are also being marketed to kids.”
The senators claim the JR-15 is marketing “weapons of war” to children and might yield another mass shooting. According to the Gun Violence Archive, America has had more mass shootings than days in 2023.
The senators’ renewed calls come days after multiple shootings involving semi-automatic pistols including two deadly mass shootings in California and weeks after a 6-year-old student in Virginia brought a gun to school and allegedly shot a first-grade teacher.
“Because every minute that we let parasitic companies like this try to trick our babies into buying lethal weapons, we risk witnessing another classroom turning into a massacre,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., said on Thursday at the press conference.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill added that the marketing bears similarity to the tobacco industry’s marketing to the youth. He said the Senate Judiciary Committee would look into the matter.
WEE 1 Tactical claims on its website that the JR-15 adds “a level of safety found on no other firearm of any size.” The company is currently taking orders for the JR-15 from gun dealers.
It also advertises a connection to Project Child Safe, a National Shooting Sports Foundation program aimed at “promoting genuine firearms safety through the distribution of safety education messages and free firearm safety kits to communities across the U.S.”
Federal law requires that any handgun legally purchased in the United States from a licensed dealer would be sold with a lock. As a trade association, NSSF provides gun locks through law enforcement on behalf of the entire gun industry, according to Olivia.
“Any firearm, period, misused negligently or criminally can certainly be capable of lethal damage,” Olivia said. “And that’s why it is so important for any youth that is going to be learning the shooting sports to be under the close and direct supervision of an adult.”
(ISLAMABAD) — A suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing and wounding dozens of worshippers, officials said.
The blast occurred at a mosque near police offices in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, not far from the country’s border with Afghanistan. More than 150 people were reportedly were praying when the suicide bomber struck. An eyewitness told ABC News that the roof collapsed from the impact.
Security and government officials confirmed the explosion was from a suicide bomber, though no one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
At least 17 people were killed and more than 60 others were wounded, a local hospital spokesperson told ABC News. Those numbers were expected to rise.
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(PARIS) — About 5,000 French bakers and other artisans in energy-guzzling fields, including butchery, dry-cleaning and carpentry, from all over the country marched in Paris last week, protesting against energy prices and requesting a tariff shield, said Pascal Wozniak, president of a collective for the survival of bakeries and craftsmanship, organizer of the rally.
Wozniak runs a bakery in Lembeye, a city of around 800 people in southwestern France, where he’s the only artisan establishment in a 12-mile radius, said he has laid off four employees since the start of the pandemic.
Working with locally produced flour “Noste Pan,” Wozniak was able to maintain prices at first, but with soaring energy prices “it was not even possible anymore, because even the farmers were impacted,” he said. “It was a disaster!”
“We won’t let anyone down,” Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said earlier this month after some professions raised concerns. He announced the deferral of payment on social and tax charges “for all bakers who have cash flow problems,” completing the two measures already in place amounting to up to 40% discounts on energy bills.
But those steps haven’t been nearly enough, the collective argued. Wozniak said he will lay off another employee soon, despite increasing his prices twice since July 2022.
Consumers who spoke with ABC News tended to agree with the need for more help.
Sophie Renard is “surprised” artisans don’t receive more help, saying to ABC News she last heard of this issue earlier this month but not last week during the protest. Maï Lanoux also says she didn’t hear about it, but is “quite surprised there is not more support” when being a baker “is an ancestral profession in France.” That sentiment was echoed by Yohann Combelles, who said “these professions are France’s pride.”
“They are blackening the profession,” Dominique Anract told ABC News in response to the demonstration, which he refused to call for as head of the National Confederation of French Bakery-Pastry. He said he blamed the financial management and choices made by some for the difficulties raised by the collective, advocating that lay-offs aren’t “the right solution” and all prices must increase by 3% to 5%.
Anract’s rhetoric is “completely disconnected” and not representative of small provinces, Wozniak said, adding “we don’t have the same figures, the same customer flow,” while “in Paris, they may not notice a 40 cents increase.”
Philippe Séramy closed his bakery in Bourg-Lastic last May, due to the soaring prices of fuel oil, which was multiplied by three, he said. Then flour, sugar and butter rose with the start of the war on Ukraine. Séramy said his business was one of the early victims of the crises.
At 57, he and his wife have relocated to Clermont-Ferrand, where he’s now baking bread for a large food retailer brand.
Couple Marie Toulza and Sébastien Picot know about this movement and support artisans, but Marie wonders if the rallying “will bear fruit,” and “to what extent does it not compromise the work of the confederation.”
If bakers aren’t often in the streets, they spearheaded one the biggest labor-strike movements of the last century when they marched in 1947 against the government measures that led to food shortages and caused inflation to reach 60% over the year.
The bakery sector holds about 55% of the bread market, but Wozniak said he fears “if we increase too much, it will benefit the industrialists.”
This time, these artisans are ready to kick things up a notch and promise more aggressive actions next month, with one simple slogan: “Let’s resist!”
(BLOOMFIELD, N.J.) — Authorities are searching for a suspect who allegedly threw a lit Molotov cocktail at the front door of a New Jersey synagogue early Sunday morning.
According to security video footage, the suspect approached the front door of Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield, New Jersey at 3:19 a.m. and threw the Molotov cocktail. The glass bottle broke but did not cause any damage, and the suspect then fled, the Bloomfield Police Department said in a statement Sunday afternoon.
Surveillance pictures shared by police show the suspect was wearing a ski mask.
Local law enforcement is investigating alongside the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said in a statement that his office is “working closely with local, county, state and federal law enforcement agencies, to identify and apprehend the suspect in this attack. Our investigation remains ongoing.”
The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness said in a tweet that they are “closely monitoring” the incident, and urge “all faith-based communities to remain vigilant.”
In a joint statement, the Anti-Defamation League of New York/New Jersey, the Jewish Federations of North Jersey and other groups said they were “outraged” to hear of the incident, which came just days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day and within months of other security threats to New Jersey synagogues.
“We urge our leaders and community partners to speak out against this outrageous act and ask that all communities remain vigilant, though we have not been informed of any particular additional threats to Jewish institutions in New Jersey at this time,” the groups wrote.
Rep. Mikkie Sherill (D-N.J.), who represents the district where Bloomfield is located, wrote on Twitter that she is in touch with law enforcement and that “my prayers” are with the community.
“Anti-Semitic hatred is on the rise in our state, our country and around the world, and we all must work together to eradicate it,” Sherrill wrote.
Evan Bernstein, CEO of Community Security Services, a group that trains volunteer security teams to help keep Jewish institutions safe, wrote in a statement to ABC News that “we have to be aware that the threat level against our communities are increasing, in the United States and abroad.”
The incident comes at a time when synagogues and Jewish institutions around the country continue to navigate what experts say is a volatile and difficult security environment for American Jews.
(LOUISVILLE, N.Y.) — At least six people are dead after an express bus and a box truck crashed in Upstate New York on Saturday, police said.
Three people were also injured in the crash, with one person in critical condition and two seriously injured, New York State Police said in an update Saturday evening. They were transported to local hospitals.
The incident occurred around 6 a.m. on State Highway 37 in Louisville and involved a 2021 Freightliner box truck and a 2013 express bus, police said. The deceased and injured victims were all traveling in the bus, police said.
State Highway 37 from St. Lawrence County Route 14 to Coles Creek Road remains closed amid the ongoing investigation.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
This Nov. 2014, file photo provided by the U.S. National Park Service shows a mountain lion known as P-22, photographed in the Griffith Park area near downtown Los Angeles. – U.S. National Park Service
(LOS ANGELES) — Another mountain lion near Los Angeles has died, over a month after P-22, a beloved local mountain lion who spurred conservation efforts, was euthanized in December after being hit by a vehicle.
The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area shared the news Friday that P-81, a four-year-old mountain lion, died on Jan. 22 after likely being hit by a vehicle. Since March 2022, vehicle strikes have been the cause of death for nine mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains research area.
Researchers from the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area captured P-81 in March 2020 and equipped him with a radio collar. According to the researchers, P-81 was significant in their study due to his physical abnormalities, including a kinked tail and a deformed reproductive organ.
According to the researchers, those features were early evidence of inbreeding within the cougar population, leading to concern about the health of the animal population.
Researchers later found that the mountain lions of the Santas Monica mountains have some of the lowest genetic diversity ever documented, second only to Florida panthers in the 1990s.
According to the National Park Service, Los Angeles and Mumbai are the only two megacities in the world to maintain a population of big cats; however, the growth of roads and traffic have fragmented the cats’ habitats, and fast-moving cars have contributed to 34 fatalities of the animals in California since 2002.
Another mountain lion, P-22, became a local celebrity in Los Angeles, helping spur the creation of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over the 101 Freeway, which would connect marooned wildlife, including mountain lions, to populations north of the city without having to cross the busy freeway. P-22 was euthanized in December after beginning to act erratically, including killing a chihuahua and attacking other dogs. Veterinarians euthanized P-22 after learning he was hit by a car and had several other ailments.
P-22’s death came amid a public outcry of support for the famous big cat, whose rise to fame in a city known for its celebrities inspired a generation of conservationists. His death prompted a front-page obituary in the Los Angeles Times, with a headline of the Sunday edition proclaiming, “Improbable trek led puma to win Angelenos’ hearts.”
“P-22’s survival on an island of wilderness in the heart of Los Angeles captivated people around the world and revitalized efforts to protect our diverse native species and ecosystems,” said California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
