2nd Dog in Fatal Attack to Be Saved for Evidence
The San Francisco district attorney’s office has ordered city animal control officials not to destroy Hera, one of the dogs involved in the fatal attack on Diane Whipple last month.
“The district attorney’s office obtained this order to protect potentially relevant evidence,” said Fred Gardner, spokesman for Dist. Atty. Terence Hallinan.
Gardner was referring to a potential case against Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, owners of Hera and another dog, Bane, involved in the mauling of Whipple.
Whipple was attacked and killed near her apartment door.
Bane, said to have inflicted Whipple’s fatal wounds, was put to death the night of the Jan. 26 attack.
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