A San Antonio man has died of extreme accidents he suffered when he was mauled by his next-door neighbor’s canine at a Northeast Side trailer park final month.
Paul Anthony Striegl Jr., 47, died at Brooke Army Medical Center at 6:34 p.m. Sunday, almost a month after the canine crawled beneath a fence into Striegl’s yard and ravaged each of his arms and his stomach. Striegl’s arms have been torn right down to the bone, police information present.
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Doctors later needed to amputate Striegl’s left forearm as much as the elbow.
The canine, a brown brindle American Staffordshire terrier named Ghost, was later euthanized by the town’s Animal Care Services company by order of a Municipal Court choose.
The mauling occurred at a cellular home park at 9511 Heidelberg round 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 5.
Striegl was sitting in a chair, smoking a cigarette, in his personal yard when his next-door neighbor’s two dogs went beneath the fence and entered his property. Only one of many dogs attacked. The different, which didn’t trigger any accidents, was later returned to its proprietor.
Striegl is the second particular person to die this 12 months because of a canine attack in San Antonio. The first was Air Force veteran Ramon Najera Jr., 81, who was killed Feb. 24 when three pit bulls escaped their yard and attacked him and his spouse with out provocation within the 2800 block of Depla Street on the West Side. Najera’s spouse, Juanita “Janie” Najera, was wounded however survived.
