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The Minnesota dentist whose killing of Zimbabwean lion Cecil sparked global outcry from animal lovers has maintained that the hunt was legal and says he plans to work on Tuesday, U.S. media reported.

24-year-old Buford Rogers, of Montevideo Minnesota, was arrested on Friday, and charged with one count of possession of contained Molotov cocktails, suspected pipe bombs and firearms. He is charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Autopsies reveal that a 35-year-old mother, Stephanie Shields, took her own life after allegedly drowning her two young children, ages 6 and 7 on Easter Day. Police in Zimmerman, Minnesota ruled that the deaths of Shields, 35 and her children Nolan and Josephine were made fowllowing autopsies, and that there are no further suspects being sought.