![]() Travis had escaped from a car before in 2003, and had spent two hours at large in Stamford. The animal returned to its owner's house, where it was later found dead. Police later fatally shot Travis to stop the attack, which left. One officer was cornered in his vehicle and shot Travis in self-defence. Travis the chimp, which had appeared in television commercials for Coca-Cola and Old Navy, jumped on Nash, biting and mauling her. Paramedics then arrived to treat the woman, with police officers protecting them, but the chimp then started attacking them, AP reported. "She retrieved a large butcher knife and stabbed her longtime pet numerous times in an effort to save her friend, who was really being brutally attacked," Conklin was quoted as saying. Owner Sandra Herold had wrestled with Travis in an effort to stop the attack on her friend, then ran inside to make an emergency call. She was the Connecticut woman who had raised a chimpanzee named Travis, who infamously mauled Herolds friend Charla Nash in February of 2009, leaving her clinging to life and her face deformed. ![]() The life-size stuffed chimpanzee still sits in the oversize chair in Traviss. We have no indication of what provoked this behaviour at all," Stamford Police captain Richard Conklin was quoted as saying by AP. The suit had initially sought 50 million from Sandra Herold, whose 200-pound chimp, Travis, attacked Charla Nash in February 2009 outside Herold’s home in North Stamford, Conn. attack and is disinclined to worry about how others see her. He rides in a car every day, he opens doors, he's a very unique animal in that aspect. His frenzied attack left her with wounds so severe that she lost half of her blood. He tore off her eyelids and nose, chewed on her face and scalped her, gouged out and ate her eyes, chewed off one of her hands, and almost tore her other arm off in a fit of unprecedented rage. "He's been raised almost like a child by this family. The 54-year-old was set on by her best friend’s pet chimp on. ![]()
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