Leopard escapes at Utah zoo; visitors take shelter

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — When she got word of a leopard on the loose at the zoo in Salt Lake City, Katie Boender ducked into the nearest building with her group of preschool students: A bathroom.
They spent the next 30 minutes holed up there as an emergency team tranquilized the rare animal that escaped from an enclosure Tuesday morning.
The big cat was perched close to home, sleeping on a wooden support beam right above where people would have clustered to watch her.
A visitor spotted the 4-