Like something from a horror film, "strips of flesh and scalp" had been flung around the yard of Sandra's Stamford, Connecticut, home. When paramedics arrived on the scene they were unable to decipher the victim's gender due to the severity of the wounds. The gunshots are heard in the background of Sandra's breathless 911 call. He ran back in to the house, and collapsed dead on his special bed, leaving a trail of blood behind him. He opened one of their patrol car's doors and lunged at an officer.ĭespite being shot four times at point blank range, Travis didn't die. When police arrived, Travis was in a frenzy of bloodlust. "He looked at me like, ‘Mom, what did you do?’” It wasn't working, so I went and I had to get a knife - and I stabbed him. Sandra said: “I grabbed the shovel and hit him with the shovel to stop it. She recalled how he turned around and looked at her, before she ran for her life and locked herself in her car. Astonishingly, his victim, Charla Nash, survived, but you could argue that in many ways, her life too came to an abrupt end that day.ĭesperate, Sandra stabbed him in the back with a carving knife and battered him over the head with a shovel in a bid to make him stop, which it did for a moment. 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. “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. 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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