Lady Gaga’s Dogwalker Ryan Fischer Drops More Details About Dognapping Incident
Lady Gaga's dogwalker, Ryan Fischer, unveiled more details about the dognapping incident in February 2021.
Over a year after Lady Gaga's former dogwalker almost lost his life while walking the singer's French bulldogs, he testified about trying to fight the dognappers before he was shot through his lungs.
The Los Angeles County Grand Jury heard Fischer's testimony last October 26, and the transcript was just unsealed recently. According to the document, a gunman - who is said to be 19-year-old James Jackson - choked him.
It caused him to hit the suspect with a bottle of champagne he purchased at a nearby store before the incident.
"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 said, as quoted by Rolling Stone. "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."
Lady Gaga's former employee also told the court the struggles he faced when he was recovering from the gunshot. For what it's worth, he spent a week at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center before returning two days later after his lung collapsed.
The health issue caused him to undergo a second surgery to save his life.
Fischer - who still suffers from breathing issues and nerve damage after the shooting - agreed to have parts of his lungs removed. The top third and bottom portions were reportedly cut surgically.
Why Lady Gaga Did Not Testify in the Case
Elsewhere in the statement, Deputy District Attorney Michele Hanisee asked whether Fischer always took care of the dogs when the singer was not around, to which the dogwalker responded, "I am."
Although Lady Gaga's dogs were the ones dognapped in the incident, Hanisee explained that she would not testify since she was not present at the time of the incident.
"There is no evidence that you will hear that suggests the suspects knew these dogs belonged to Lady Gaga. All the evidence indicates that they were targeting French bulldogs due to the value of the breed and the desire to own that particular breed," the district attorney went on.
The suspects have since been charged with murder, and the authorities first identified them through a thorough probe in the surveillance video of the Nissan Sentra's license plate found at a nearby 7-Eleven.
