CARBONDALE, Pa.—A 400-pound statue of a gorilla is back at its northeastern Pennsylvania home but only after someone apparently used it for target practice.

Patricia Rudalavage's beloved lava-rock statue Greystone was returned to her Scranton-area home on Thursday. The stalwart statue had sustained gun shots to his head, stomach and extremities but he's still standing.

Rudalavage tells The Times-Tribune of Scranton ( http://bit.ly/PUmjAD) two men arrived with the statue in the back of a pickup truck, saying they'd found him about five miles away at a makeshift shooting range on Salem Mountain in Carbondale Township. She says they refused the $100 reward for his return.

Rudalavage says her adored ape disappeared from outside her home on Monday.

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Information from: The Times-Tribune, http://thetimes-tribune.com/