He ran back into the house and collapsed dead on his bed.Īfter paramedics arrived on the scene, they believed Charla - slumped in a pool of her own blood with no recognisable features - was dead.Īfter realising she was still breathing, she was rushed into surgery and underwent a 72-hour operation while surgeons attempted to reconstructĬharla now lives in a care home with a new face and will rely on carers to look after her for the rest of her life.
He opened one of the police car doors and lunged at an officer.ĭespite being shot four times at point-blank range Travis didn't die straight away. When the police arrived, Travis continued on his rampage. Rishi Sunak under huge pressure to solve 'pensions minefield' Iran slammed for doing the Houthi's 'dirty work' in UAE attack Taliban show their true colours as women pepper sprayed in street Sandra recalls: "He looked at me like, 'Mom, what did you do?" In a desperate attempt to get the primate off her friend, the then 70-year-old grabbed a shovel and hit him over the head, and even stabbed him in the back.
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Sandra, who was the only one to witness the full attack, claimed Travis approached Charla aggressively before getting on his hind legs, throwing her against the side of her car before launching the savage attack. Travis had known Charla - who was 55 at the time - for several years but she had recently changed her hair around the time of the attack and there are claims he had become startled by this and lashed out. However, just six years later they would be proved very wrong when the grown-up chimpanzee attacked Charla. Luckily, he didn't manage to catch the person but it took police several hours to entice him back to his owners and the incident led to a new law being passed in Conneticut - no one could own a primate weighing more than 50lbs.Įven though Travis showed concerning behaviour, he was allowed to stay with his owners after the authorities decided he didn't pose a threat.
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