![]() When Travis attacked, Herold stabbed him with a butcher knife and struck him with a shovel in unsuccessful attempts to move him away. Herold has speculated that the chimp was trying to protect her and attacked Nash because she had changed her hairstyle, was driving a different car and was holding a stuffed toy in front of her face to get Travis' attention. Herold asked Charla Nash to come to her home the day of the attack to help lure Travis back into her house. Travis combed her hair and they slept in the same bed, she said. Herold, who owned the 14-year-old chimp for nearly all his life, has said she fed Travis the finest foods, including steak, lobster, cheesecake and wine. We haven't said one or two words about her," he said, referring to Herold. Nash, who lives in Virginia, said he doesn't know Herold or many details about the case. Doctors haven't decided if she will be a candidate for a face transplant at the clinic, where the first face transplant in the U.S. Nash said he's hopeful the physicians will speak publicly about his sister's condition later this week. It's a slow process," said Steve Nash, who is with his sister in Ohio. ![]() "She's stabilized and the evaluation process is going to take a long time. 16 attack by Travis, a chimpanzee owned by her friend, 70-year-old Sandra Herold of Stamford. "That's the way my sister would want it," Steve Nash said of his younger sister, 55-year-old Charla Nash, who remains under sedation at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, where she is being evaluated by teams of physicians.Ĭharla Nash's twin, Michael, needs the legal designation to make decisions on behalf of Charla and her 17-year-old daughter, Briana, who is staying with family friends in Connecticut, Steve Nash told The Associated Press on Sunday.Ĭharla Nash was transferred from Stamford Hospital in Connecticut to Ohio with massive injuries to her face and hands from the Feb. The family of a woman who was mauled by a 200-pound chimpanzee says her twin brother plans to go to court this week to seek guardianship of the victim and her daughter.
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