Travis was familiar with Nash, who had also worked at the Herolds’ towing company, although Nash had a different hair style at the time of the attack.
Travis had left the house with the Herolds’ car keys, and Nash came to help get the chimp back in the house upon seeing Nash holding one of his favorite toys, Travis immediately attacked her. On February 16, 2009, Travis attacked Sandra Herold’s 55-year-old friend Charla Nash, inflicting devastating injuries to her face and limbs. Here is an account of that infamous 2009 chimp attack – from Wikipedia If a domesticated Chimp can tear apart a woman within minutes taking a shovel beating, butcher knife and shooting – Its hard to believe 20 minutes with a squatch without being ripped apart limb from limb even if he stabbed it. “To make up a story to this magnitude would be a considerable crime, considering the amount of money and manpower that that required that day and continues to require up to this point,” said Cameron. He said TWRA will continue to investigate, but couldn’t say if there might be charges if Savage’s story isn’t true. People that have been attacked by a bear will have bite marks on them, on their arms, their hands, on their back, and he just doesn’t have that.”Ĭameron would not confirm if the injuries were self-inflected. There’s no bite marks they’re all lacerations.
“If he were able to stab it, there should be blood, there should be hair, there should be a blood trail,” said Cameron. However, after investigating, Matt Cameron with the TWRA said they are “fairly certain” Savage was not attacked by a bear or any other wild animal.Ĭameron said Savage’s injuries show he was not attacked by an animal and there isn’t any evidence at the scene where Savage said he fought with the animal for 20 minutes. Savage said he ended up with 132 stitches. That’s when it scratched me on my stomach.”
“It grabbed me and then I had a knife on me and I did stick it a few times. “I got grabbed, and I got picked up off my feet, and I rolled around with what appeared, something appeared to be very big and black,” Savage told WATE.
Friday morning by an animal with dark, coarse hair.Īfter the attack, the TWRA said they could not confirm the attack was caused by a bear, but they did issue a bear warning and put out a trap. Michael Savage, 27, said he was attacked around 4 a.m. In fact, there might not even be a scene. (WATE) – An east Tennessee man said he was attacked by a wild animal Friday, and investigators immediately got to work, warning the public and searching for a possible bear in the White Bridge area of Campbell County.īut now, officials with the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency (TWRA) said there is zero evidence at the scene. Sep 8 Man attacked by a large unknown animal with dark, coarse hair
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