![]() ![]() Tyke lashes out Īccording to Tyrone Taylor, Tyke's responsible trainer at the time (interviewed in documentary film), Tyke had been involved in three incidents prior to the attack of August 1994. The elephant then stampeded through the circus grounds outside before being shot to death by police. On 1 February 1992 at the Great American Circus in Palm Bay, Florida, an elephant named Janet (1965 – 1 February 1992) went out of control while giving a ride to a mother, her two children, and three other children. While the majority of the attack in the arena was recorded on consumer videotape by several spectators, additional professional video footage captured the attack on local publicist Steve Hirano and the shooting of Tyke herself (both of which took place outside of the building).īackground Previous Events Unable to calm the elephant, local police opened fire on the animal, which collapsed from the wounds and died. Tyke then ran from the arena and through the streets of the Kakaʻako central business district for more than thirty minutes. On August 20, 1994, during a performance at the Neal Blaisdell Center, she killed her trainer, Allen Campbell, and seriously injured her groomer, Dallas Beckwith. Tyke (1973 – August 20, 1994) was a female African bush elephant from Mozambique who performed with Circus International of Honolulu, Hawaii. Rampaging through Kakaʻako, killing Allen Campbell and injuring 13 others Tyke running through the streets, minutes before being shot to death
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