Overview

• South African authorities have launched an inquest into the circumstances surrounding Asher Watkins’s death on August 3 during a safari in Limpopo Province.
• Coenraad Vermaak Safaris and Watkins’s family are fully cooperating with investigators as the official inquiry proceeds.
• It is still undetermined whether the 1.3-tonne buffalo was killed following the attack or escaped to rejoin its herd.
• Watkins, a 52-year-old Texas ranch trader and managing partner at Watkins Ranch Group, was gored during a guided hunt alongside a professional hunter and tracker.
• Cape buffalo, known as “Black Death,” can charge at up to 35 mph and inflict about 200 human fatalities each year, underscoring the lethal risks of big-game hunting.