![]() Eduardo Munoz/Reuters A woman who was mauled and blinded by a 200-pound chimpanzee in 2009. Police shot and killed the 200-lb animal after it ripped off Charla Nashs hands, nose, lips and eyelids. “A chimpanzee is a wild beast and has no business being in a private residence,” Willinger said in the statement. ApOfficials have barred Charla Nash from suing Connecticut over an attack in 2009. 23 For Charla Nash, who was blinded, lost her hands and underwent a full face transplant after she was mauled by a crazed chimp in. WFSB Travis the chimp attacked police cars during the Feb. The state cannot be sued without the claims commissioner’s approval. The state’s attorney general has sought to block the $150-million suit, but the Connecticut claims commissioner has yet to rule on whether it can go ahead. The lawsuit against Herold accused her of failing to install adequate locks and take other measures that would have prevented Travis from escaping, and giving Travis medications that “exacerbated the chimpanzee’s violent propensities.” Travis’ behavior had become increasingly erratic, and the attack left Nash severely disfigured and Travis dead. Leone said Herold later told her everything was under control.Ĭourt papers also alleged that Travis, who in his younger days appeared in television commercials, had over the years tried to drag a woman into a car, bitten a man, and escaped Herold’s home at least once. On February 16, 2009, tragedy struck when Travis the Chimp, a chimpanzee who had gained national celebrity over the years, viciously attacked his owner’s close friend, Charla Nash. “She was yelling at me to get my dart gun and get over there and help her,” Marcella Leone said. The animal, a 14-year-old named Travis who was something of. 7, 2009, they would not file charges against the chimps owner. Nash lost her hands, lips, nose and eyes when she was viciously attacked by a friend’s pet chimpanzee in Stamford, Conn., in 2009. Travis the chimp didn’t kill anyone 19 peachkoala420 1 yr. She died later in life of heart problems. The chimps owner Sandra wasn’t attacked and was the one who called the police. In a deposition filed as part of its effort to sue the state, the owner of a private zoo in Greenwich, Conn., testified that Herold had called her in a panic in 2008 - a year before Nash’s mauling - after Travis escaped. Charla Nash, right, was attacked by her friends 200-pound chimpanzee named Travis, shown left. ago I know this was a while ago, but only one person was attacked, Charla Nash. A woman who was mauled and blinded by a 200-pound chimpanzee in 2009 will not be able to sue. ![]() He would not confirm details of the settlement but said he and his clients felt it was “a fair compromise on all sides, and we are pleased to resolve the matter,” AP reported.Īccording to the Nash family, Travis had a history of attacking people and escaping Herold’s home. Officials have barred Charla Nash from suing Connecticut over an attack in 2009. ![]() Astonishingly, his victim, Charla Nash, survived, but you could argue that in many ways, her life too came to an abrupt end that day.The attorney representing the estate of Herold, Brenden Leydon, disagreed. ![]() I can’t … He’s eating her! He’s eating her! Please! God! Please! Where are they? Where are they?” “Gun! They got to shoot him! Please! Please! Hurry! Hurry! Please! I can’t. Steven White 14:30, Bookmark On a day like any other Charla Nash went to visit her friend who happened to own a chimpanzee that she had raised like a son for more than a. Charla Nash lost her nose, lips, an eyelid and her hands when the animal, which was kept by a friend as a pet, attacked her. “He-he ripped her face off! He's eating her face! "He ripped her apart! Hurry up! Hurry up! Please!” Herold breathlessly replies. "Tell me, what is the monkey doing?," the operator asks as Travis's harrowing, almost gleeful, wails and screeches echo down the line. CHICAGO (CBS/AP) Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman who was attacked by a 200-pound chimpanzee named Travis has revealed her horribly mangled face and says she's ready to heal and move forward. CHICAGO (CBS/AP) Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman who was attacked by a 200-pound chimpanzee named Travis has revealed her horribly mangled face and says she's ready to heal and move forward. It's hard to know what is more chilling about Sandra Herold's 911 call - hearing her helpless sobbing as she reveals her pet chimp is "eating" her friend's face, or the ape's frenzied screams in the background.įor an excruciating 12 minutes, Sandra is heard pleading for police to rush to her home to shoot dead Travis, the animal she had raised as her own son for the previous 14 years, reports the Daily Star. ![]()
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