Topic: Travis (Chimpanzee)
AP News | 2010-02-25 21:46:04
Conn. officer who shot rampaging chimp after mauling woman tells lawmakers he was traumatized
A police officer on Thursday recalled how he plunged into "a depression beyond depression" after shooting a rampaging 200-pound chimpanzee and said he was traumatized by seeing the woman who had been brutally mauled by an animal he calls "a monster." Frank Chiafari, making his first ...
AP Features | 2010-02-17 20:25:29
<div><p>A police officer who shot and killed a chimpanzee last year after it mauled a woman has been denied a claim for workers' compensation for post-traumatic stress disorder because state law only applies to police shootings of people.</p><p>State Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, introduced legislation Tuesday — the one-year ...
AP News | 2009-12-07 21:43:59
<div id="subtitle">Connecticut prosecutor says he does not plan to file charges in chimp attack</div><div><p>A Connecticut woman who owned a chimpanzee that mauled and blinded a woman won't be charged because there's no evidence she knowingly disregarded any risk the animal posed, a prosecutor said ...
AP News | 2009-12-07 18:39:47
FILE - This Oct. 20, 2003 file photo shows Travis, a 10-year-old chimpanzee, sitting in the corner of his playroom at the home of Sandra and Jerome Herold in Stamford, Conn. A Connecticut prosecutor does not plan to charge Sandra Herold ...
