A SECOND American has been named in a growing big game poaching investigation in Zimbabwe.

    Pennsylvania Dr. Jan Casimir Seski, 68, is accused of killing a lion in an illegal hunt in April and his guides have been arrested.

    Seski has been pictured online with a series of dead animals including elephants, hippos, zebras, ostriches, impala and water buffalo. An online hunting club claims he has killed six elephants.

    It comes a week after Africa’s most famous lion Cecil was killed by Minnesota Dentist Dr. Walter Palmer in early July, sparking international outrage.

    Seski was involved in an illegal hunt of a lion in April around Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, said the National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority in a statement released to CBS.

    A Zimbabwean landowner named Headman Sibanda was arrested in the case and is assisting police with their investigation, the authority said. He named Seski as being involved in the hunt.

    Seski is listed as being Director of Gynecologic Oncology at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

    A handful of Seski’s neighbors said he mostly keeps to himself and that he’d been buying up the land around his property. Ernest Hahn said Seski put up no-trespassing signs, breaking the rural area’s tradition of people feeling free to cross property lines to hunt.

    Hahn said Seski can be “quirky,” walking around wearing a low-slung pistol “like a gunslinger,” for example, but he appreciates that his neighbor is protecting their land from development.

    “It seemed to me everything he does is aboveboard,” Hahn said. “I’ve never seen him do anything illegal or unsportsmanlike at all.”

    Not only is Seski an alleged lion killer, he is a member of the Alaska Bow Hunting Society that shows members posing with elephants, hippos, and other animals they’ve killed.

    (SD-Agencies)