Almost 2 years after he was shot in the chest because he refused to hand over Lady Gaga’s beloved French bulldogs, Ryan Fischer was in an LA courtroom as the man who pulled the trigger was sentenced to 21 years in prison.
and demanded the three animals.
“They pointed down to the dogs, that they wanted the dogs, and I said, ‘No.’ And I started to scream for help and tried to fight back,” Fischer testified, according to a transcript obtained byHe said the man with the gun “threw” him into a concrete embankment and “began to choke me.” He hit the man with a bottle of champagne purchased at a nearby store, broke free, and tried to lunge for Koji.
“The dog screamed at me, and I reached for him, and then the guy, the man with the gun shot me as I was reaching,” Fischer testified, saying he collapsed on the ground as his assailants sped away. “I immediately tried to call for help but realized I was bleeding out of my lung and that I was losing more and more air quickly,” Fischer testified.
The animal lover described using hand signals to tell Asia to stay hidden during the attack. After he was shot, the dog ran to his side. While gasping for breath, Fischer then “tried to project as much as possible in a calm manner to get people out of their houses to ask for help,” he testified.
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