Vigil Planned Outside Queens Slaughterhouse Where Bull Escaped

NEW YORK - Animal lovers will pay their respects to the bull that ran away from a Queens slaughterhouse and died Tuesday.

A vigil is being held Wednesday night at the Aziz slaughterhouse on Beaver Road in Jamaica, where the bull escaped from.

• Bull Who Escaped from Queens Slaughterhouse Has Died

Officers chased the bull through the streets for hours, shooting him with tranquilizers. He was eventually cornered at 158th street and 116th Avenue, nearly two miles away.

The bull died while on its way to the Animal Care and Control Center in East New York, Brooklyn.

The vigil begins at 7 p.m.