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Volunteer has been identified as diana hanson from washington state. her facebook page shows her pictured with larges cats. her father released a statement last night saying in part diana was so excited at working in cat haven and living in california. her favorites were the lion and the tiger, couscous, who killed her today. jennifer michaels also known as jungle jenny got an up close view of the lion getting a tour of cat haven in central california. >> i didn't see any type of aggressive behavior or anything that i needed to be worried about. >> reporter: cat haven is a 100-acre wooded sanc...

Seem to show what her father said was an absolute love for the job. one of those cats was a 350-pound 5 1/2-year-old african lion who lived at cat haven since he was a few months old. this is iphone video taken by a cnn ireporter in december. investigators say diana was with another intern but was the only one in the enclosure when he attacked. >> apparently the other intern was outside of the cage and she was in the cage and i don't know why in the world she would ever be inside of the lion's cage. i can't think of why she would do that. >> though who knew him say he has no history of aggress...

Questions about exactly what happened and why. cnn's dan simon takes a closer look. >> our thoughts and prayers go out to our friend and to her family at this trying time. >> reporter: the 24-year-old volunteer has been identified as diana hanson from washington state. her facebook page shows her picture with large cats. her father released a statement saying in part diana was so excited at working in cat haven and living in california. >> jennifer michaels got a tour of cat haven in central california. >> i didn't see any type of aggressive behavior or anything that i needed to be worried abo...

From what we understand from authorities, she was in a enclosure when the attack happened and they believe the cat who attacked her was the 350-pound african lion. our fresno affiliates are reporting this lion was called cous cous, a celebrity cat, a cat who had made the rounds of various talk shows and they say when the attack happened, someone else, another co-worker, tried in vain to distract this huge cat and it just did not work. when the sheriff's deputies, the first to arrive on scene tried, they saw that the victim was injured severely but the victim died on scene. some are asking what...

Lion. >> a lion shot dead wednesday afternoon. >> female volunteer intern entered the lion's enclosure where she was attacked and fatally injured. the lion was shot and killed per our safety protocols. our thoughts and prayers go out to the -- our friend and family and to her family at this time and this trying time. >> reporter: the 24-year-old volunteer has been identified as diana hanson from washington state. her facebook page shows her pictured with large cats. her father released a statement last night saying in part, diane was so excited at working in cat haven and living in california....