MU police shoot runaway steer on campus

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Campus police have shot and killed a runaway steer that fled a University of Missouri slaughterhouse and seriously injured a man during the pursuit.

 The 1,300-pound Angus steer escaped from the university's veterinary school just before 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. The animal led campus officers, an MU livestock handler and its owners on a 90-minute winding chase through the campus, across a busy Columbia street and into the nearby East Campus neighborhood.

 A tranquilizer dart failed to slow the steer, which ran into the sides of two campus police cars. A campus officer shot the animal three times behind an off-campus home.

 The Columbia Missourian reports that John Brune, whose son owned the steer, was hospitalized with a head injury he suffered while trying to help corral the animal.