Brooklyn Bull Left Windsor Terrace Baby Bloodied On Way To Prospect Park: Report

WINDSOR TERRACE, BROOKLYN — The runaway bull that escaped a slaughterhouse in the South Slope and ended up on a Prospect Park soccer field rammed into a baby in Windsor Terrace during its jaunt through Brooklyn, the baby's mother told the New York Post.

Catherine McRae, 38, was coming from Prospect Park when she saw the animal charging at her. Here's how she described the ordeal to the Post:

“I heard somebody yell, ‘Run!’ I didn’t hear it, I didn’t see it. I turned around and it was 10 feet behind us, running at full speed,” McRae, a jazz singer at the Plaza Hotel, said from her home in Windsor Terrace.

The bull smashed between McRae and the stroller, flipping it upside down, before darting off into the park.

“She was under the stroller and I had to turn the stroller over, at which point I saw her face all bloodied up,” McRae recalled tearfully. “She was screaming at the top of her lungs. I tried to dial 911 but I couldn’t because my hand was shaking.”

The running bull captured the attention of New Yorkers and people around the country on an otherwise dull Tuesday as news helicopters tracked its every move.

The bull was eventually corralled after a long standoff with officers. Police hit the animal with a tranquilizer then had to wait around for it to fall asleep before loading it into a truck.

"Her lip was so big, it kind of affected her speech, it affected her eating. It was heartbreaking," McRae told the Post. "She’s a cutie and I didn’t want her to have any permanent scarring or damage."

McRae also said she didn't want to see the animal be euthanized.

Good news for her: "Shankar," as the unruly bull is now known, will live out the rest of his days at a sanctuary in New Jersey.

Lead photo by Kathleen Culliton, Patch Staff