Press release
Today 8/20/2021, a resident of the Town of Attica reports that yesterday, August 19th, 2021, at approximately 3:00p.m., he struck the Monitor Lizard with his vehicle on Main Street in the Village of Attica, he did not see the lizard lying in the road and did not know what he hit until he went back and looked. The Monitor Lizard is deceased.
There is still currently in an ongoing investigation with the DEC.