Eric Slate is believed to have been beaten to death by a kangaroo at his brother's petting zoo in South Carolina.

The Loris farm owner denies that his brother “roughhoused” with the marsupial. Family is awaiting autopsy results to find out how he died.

As police continue to investigate the death of 52-year-old Eric Slate, who was found dead inside a kangaroo enclosure, his ...

In recent weeks, Eric Slate gave up going to the gym or other hobbies that his family were accustomed to. Instead, he’d spend ...

Jack, a red kangaroo, had only been at 5 Star Farm for two weeks, but Eric Slate had already bonded with the marsupial. Eric Slate would often go into the enclosure to feed the animal, give it ...

Then he spotted Eric Slate lying inside the kangaroo enclosure. The 52-year-old wasn't moving. "It's been tragic," Robert Slate, the farm's owner, said. "My Mom, she knows that he was doing what ...

It’s not an aggressive animal. It’s very sad… It was not the animal’s fault,” local Councilmember Mark Causey said.

The animal-rights group PETA has asked Gov. Henry McMaster to ban “direct contact with wild and exotic animals in South ...