One of two dogs seized by authorities after an assault that severely injured a resident of a Northeast Side cell home park has been sterilized and returned to its proprietor.
An investigation by San Antonio’s Animal Care Services company decided that the feminine American Staffordshire terrier was not concerned within the assault on Paul Anthony Striegl Jr., ACS spokeswoman Lisa Norwood stated Friday. The canine’s proprietor, Gregory Palmer, has reclaimed it, Norwood stated.
Palmer’s different canine, a male American Staffordshire terrier, stays in ACS custody beneath a 10-day quarantine mandated by the state.
ACS is getting ready to situation legal citations towards the dogs’ proprietor, Norwood stated. The company enforces each metropolis ordinances and states legal guidelines governing remedy of animals and the duty of householders to manage harmful or aggressive dogs.
The San Antonio Police Department will decide whether or not to pursue separate legal costs. SAPD’s Homicide Division is investigating the assault.
Striegl, 47, remained in honest situation at Brooke Army Medical Center. His brother stated it is attainable Striegl’s left forearm should be amputated as much as the elbow.
Striegel lives next-door to Palmer. The mauling occurred simply after 11:30 a.m. Tuesday as Striegl was sitting in a chair in his fenced-in entrance yard smoking a cigarette, in line with neighbors on the cell home park within the 9500 block of Heidelberg, simply north of town of Windcrest.
Neighbors stated that Palmer wasn’t home on the time, however that somebody at his trailer home let each dogs exterior. The male canine crawled beneath the fence to succeed in Striegl and attacked him, biting him on his arms and abdomen, in line with a preliminary police report and a joint assertion by SAPD and ACS.
Striegl’s roommate and a neighbor intervened to get the dogs off him, in line with Striegl’s brother and two neighbors.
Neighbors stated Striegl misplaced a major quantity of blood. He has two dogs of his personal, they stated.
Neighbors stated Palmer’s dogs have by no means gotten exterior or run free earlier than this week. They famous Palmer at all times saved the dogs on a lease or a sequence. “That man’s been non secular about holding them in the home,” stated neighbor C.J. Johnson, who lives nearby of Palmer’s home.
ACS stated it has no report of earlier calls or complaints regarding both of Palmer’s dogs.
A listening to has been set for Thursday in Municipal Court No. 4 to determine the information of the case and decide what is going to occur to the male canine. Palmer is being notified of the listening to by licensed mail and might deliver an legal professional, officers stated.
