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“When I turned around, I saw one of the males out of the corner of my eye. We made eye contact, and he charged.”
St. James moved to protect his wife and she put her arm around him, but one of the chimps came hurtling and bashed into her from behind, knocking the couple to the ground.
LaDonna continued: “As we were falling, the chimp came back around and bit my finger off. There was no time to run. There was no time to do anything.”
Heroic St. James pushed his wife under their picnic table and took the mauling.
One of the crazed chimps bit into right eye socket then used a finger to gouge out his eye. The ape then sank his teeth into the man's nose, tearing it off. The other chimp chomped on his fingers.
St. James, who was a commanding 6ft 2ins and strong, fought back but the chimps used their claws to rip the skin off his face so badly that a flap covered his left eye, rendering him blind.
The animals bit his skull and one clasped his jaws on the man's mouth, ripping off his lips and tearing out some of his teeth. One gnawed at his left foot, leaving a gaping hole.
After around five minutes, St. James was spent, but the mauling continued.
The chimps chomped on his buttocks and his genitals, severing them.
Eventually, the sanctuary's owner, Virginia Brauer, tried to stop the chimps by spraying them with a water hose, but it didn't work.
She shouted to her son-in-law, Mark Carruthers, who shot the younger chimp with a .45-caliber revolver. When that failed to stop the ape, he returned with more powerful ammunition and shot the older chimp in the head, killing him.
Meanwhile, the younger chimp had dragged St. James's limp, mutilated body around 30ft towards a car park. He was still gnawing at the man's body when the gunman shot him in the chest, killing him and ending the assault.
“It was pandemonium,” LaDonna told the Los Angeles Times. “I was screaming to the top of my lungs for help.”
Moe, horrified, cowered in a corner of his cage.
Kern County fire captain Kurt Merrell, one of the first on the scene, told the Los Angeles Times: "I had no idea a chimpanzee was capable of doing that to a human.
"It looked like a grizzly-bear attack."
good luck Bo
St. James moved to protect his wife and she put her arm around him, but one of the chimps came hurtling and bashed into her from behind, knocking the couple to the ground.
LaDonna continued: “As we were falling, the chimp came back around and bit my finger off. There was no time to run. There was no time to do anything.”
Heroic St. James pushed his wife under their picnic table and took the mauling.
One of the crazed chimps bit into right eye socket then used a finger to gouge out his eye. The ape then sank his teeth into the man's nose, tearing it off. The other chimp chomped on his fingers.
St. James, who was a commanding 6ft 2ins and strong, fought back but the chimps used their claws to rip the skin off his face so badly that a flap covered his left eye, rendering him blind.
The animals bit his skull and one clasped his jaws on the man's mouth, ripping off his lips and tearing out some of his teeth. One gnawed at his left foot, leaving a gaping hole.
After around five minutes, St. James was spent, but the mauling continued.
The chimps chomped on his buttocks and his genitals, severing them.
Eventually, the sanctuary's owner, Virginia Brauer, tried to stop the chimps by spraying them with a water hose, but it didn't work.
She shouted to her son-in-law, Mark Carruthers, who shot the younger chimp with a .45-caliber revolver. When that failed to stop the ape, he returned with more powerful ammunition and shot the older chimp in the head, killing him.
Meanwhile, the younger chimp had dragged St. James's limp, mutilated body around 30ft towards a car park. He was still gnawing at the man's body when the gunman shot him in the chest, killing him and ending the assault.
“It was pandemonium,” LaDonna told the Los Angeles Times. “I was screaming to the top of my lungs for help.”
Moe, horrified, cowered in a corner of his cage.
Kern County fire captain Kurt Merrell, one of the first on the scene, told the Los Angeles Times: "I had no idea a chimpanzee was capable of doing that to a human.
"It looked like a grizzly-bear attack."
good luck Bo
