A person attacked by a dog on San Antonio’s West Side final month suffered extreme accidents when the animal bit his neck, exposing his trachea and the tissue surrounding considered one of his carotid arteries, court docket data present.
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The new particulars on Raymond Zamora’s accidents are described in an affidavit that the town’s Animal Care Services company filed in court docket to acquire a warrant to grab the canine.
“Both the carotid sheath and trachea were noted to be exposed as a result of the attack,” based on the affidavit, written by an ACS investigator.
Zamora’s medical data say he suffered a “defect” to his “proximal left carotid artery” through the mauling, in addition to giant lacerations to the back and front of his neck, the affidavit acknowledged.
The carotid arteries, one on all sides of the neck, are main blood vessels supplying blood to the mind. A person can bleed to dying swiftly if both of them is severed.
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Zamora, 53, crossed paths with Marcus Anthony Davila, 40, and Davila’s canine, an extra-large, brown brindle Presa Canario named Indio, on a sidewalk on the nook of North Colorado and West Martin streets round 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 21.
Zamora informed police that Davila, with whom he’d had issues earlier than, approached him with the canine and accused him of stealing from Davila’s mother-in-law, who lives close by, a police report states.
Zamora bent over to retrieve a private merchandise he had dropped. Indio grabbed him by the throat, pulling him to the bottom, based on ACS Sgt. Shanna DeLaCruz, who testified concerning the incident throughout a quick court docket listening to Thursday.
Davila had his canine on a leash, however a San Antonio police report reveals that others accused him of letting his canine attack Zamora.
When the canine let go, Zamora walked away and requested for assist. A bystander utilized strain to his neck to attempt to stanch the bleeding till paramedics arrived.
Zamora was initially reported to be in critical situation when he was taken to University Hospital’s trauma unit, however he has since been launched.
Police later went to Davila’s home within the 1700 block of West Martin Street, the place he was arrested on felony fees of canine attack inflicting critical bodily harm and aggravated assault with a lethal weapon. He was launched after posting bonds totaling $90,000.
ACS filed a warrant to grab Indio on Sept. 26, 5 days after the attack.
After Thursday’s court docket listening to, Municipal Court Judge Lisa Gonzales concluded that the canine had brought about critical bodily harm and ordered that the animal be euthanized.
Davila waived his proper to seem at Thursday’s listening to. His legal professional, Marc LaHood, was employed to defend him Wednesday and was unable to attend the listening to, however later informed the Express-News that he believes the proof — as soon as it’s turned over to the protection — will present the canine was defending its proprietor.
“It’s personal to me because my family’s a dog family,” LaHood stated. “What’s the old saying? Dog is man’s best friend. They’re loyal, they’re protective and they don’t ask for anything in return.”
‘Numerous blood’
San Antonio has witnessed a string of great canine assaults this yr, two of them deadly.
On Feb. 24, Air Force veteran Ramon Najera Jr., 81, was killed by pit bulls on the West Side.
Najera and his spouse, who lived in Leon Valley, had stopped to go to a buddy within the 2800 block of Depla. Three dogs escaped from the yard subsequent door, and two of them attacked the couple. Najera’s spouse, Juanita, now 75, was wounded however survived.
The animals’ house owners had been charged with harmful canine attack inflicting dying and with recklessly inflicting harm to an elderly person, each felonies.
On Sunday, Paul Anthony Striegl Jr., 47, died of complications from a Sept. 5 dog mauling at a trailer park on the Northeast Side. He had been hospitalized at Brooke Army Medical Center because the attack.
Striegl was sitting in a chair in his yard, smoking a cigarette, when his next-door neighbor’s two dogs slipped below a fence and entered his property. One of the dogs ravaged Striegl’s arms and stomach. Both of his arms had been torn right down to the bone, police data present.
An ACS harmful canine investigator later testified that she noticed items of human flesh on the bottom — and “a lot of blood” — when she arrived on the scene within the 9500 block of Heidelberg, simply north of Windcrest. Striegl’s left forearm needed to be amputated as much as the elbow.
The canine was later euthanized by order of a municipal court docket decide. ACS has served three legal citations on the canine’s proprietor, Gregory Leon Palmer.
