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Erik Cowie, known to Netflix viewers as one of the zookeepers at Joe Exotic’s ill-fated Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma featured inTigerKing, has died, according to multiple outlets. He was 52.
Cowie was pronounced dead at a Brooklyn apartment last Friday, police said,according to NBC New York. When first responders arrived at the scene, Cowie was already unconscious.
TMZ reportedthat sources said Cowie’s death doesn’t appear to be suspicious, and while no drugs were found on the scene, a toxicology test is still expected to be performed.
Cowie testified against Joe Exotic — whose original sentence was vacated in July — in the case. Starting in July 2016, Joe Exotic repeatedly tried to hire people, including an undercover FBI agent, to murder Baskin, who owns a tiger refuge in Florida and won a multimillion-dollar judgment against his Oklahoma zoo.
Joe Exotic eventually gave a man $3,000 to travel from Oklahoma to South Carolina and on to Florida to kill Baskin, “with a promise to pay thousands more after the deed,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
An Oklahoma City judge will now resentence Joe Exotic.
source: people.com
