ATLANTA – A circus zebra escaped and led police on a chase through downtown Atlanta Thursday before being captured along an interstate.
Rush hour traffic came to a standstill as Atlanta police attempted to corral the animal, spotted by witnesses near the Sam Nun Federal Building, near Centennial Olympic Park, and CNN before it was captured along the downtown connector.
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus is in town. The circus also had a group of elephants corralled in a parking lot in downtown Atlanta Thursday.