The Minnesota dentist who killed Cecil the lion returned to work Tuesday after weeks away, walking silently past a swarm of media and a handful of protesters outside his small dental practice calling for him to be sent to Zimbabwe to face trial.
A security guard met Walter Palmer in the parking lot of the Bloomington clinic as he walked from a street where police had blocked off traffic, whisking him inside past a barrage of reporters shouting questions.
Palmer announced Sunday in an interview with the Associated Press — his first since the uproar broke over Cecil's killing during a hunt in Zimbabwe's vast Hwange National Park in July — that he would return to work, saying his patients and staff need him.