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Montrose woman recovering from Pride parade injuries
By MICHAEL REED
A Montrose woman injured by an HPD horse during a crowd-control sweep at the Pride Houston Parade is recovering, but due to numbness in her chin will see a neurosurgeon to test for nerve damage.
"She still has a large amount of swelling on the back of her head," her husband, Bill Maxey, said Wednesday. “Kirste is alive and will heal in time.”
Kirste Reimers, 50, suffered injuries at about 9:45 p.m. June 27 near the intersection of Westheimer Road and Stanford Street. She was taken to St. Joseph Hospital, where she was treated and released at about 2 a.m.
Since the accident, Reimers has had a large gauze wrapping on her chin replaced with three Band-Aids, but still has sutures and a “large knot” on the back of her head, Maxey said.
Additionally, she experiences pain in her right, upper shoulder blade and bruises on her arms and legs.
An HPD spokeswoman told the Examiner the incident occurred when mounted officers approached spectators at “a very slow rate,” asking them to step back from Westheimer. But Reimers, who apparently didn’t hear them, was “bumped and slipped under the horse.”
An attorney for Reimers, Pete T. Patterson, however, characterized the police account as “fantasy,” saying “literally dozens of witnesses, as well as numerous photographs and video” show she was kicked and stepped on.
“Actually, we’d just like a real investigation to be done,” said Maxey, who added any decision on possible legal action would be up to his wife, but she is “trying to heal and is not focused on paperwork.”
Maxey said the couple has canceled plans to visit Greece in September as advised by plastic surgeon, who said the sun would be bad for scar tissue.
"She still has a large amount of swelling on the back of her head," her husband, Bill Maxey, said Wednesday. “Kirste is alive and will heal in time.”
Kirste Reimers, 50, suffered injuries at about 9:45 p.m. June 27 near the intersection of Westheimer Road and Stanford Street. She was taken to St. Joseph Hospital, where she was treated and released at about 2 a.m.
Since the accident, Reimers has had a large gauze wrapping on her chin replaced with three Band-Aids, but still has sutures and a “large knot” on the back of her head, Maxey said.
Additionally, she experiences pain in her right, upper shoulder blade and bruises on her arms and legs.
An HPD spokeswoman told the Examiner the incident occurred when mounted officers approached spectators at “a very slow rate,” asking them to step back from Westheimer. But Reimers, who apparently didn’t hear them, was “bumped and slipped under the horse.”
An attorney for Reimers, Pete T. Patterson, however, characterized the police account as “fantasy,” saying “literally dozens of witnesses, as well as numerous photographs and video” show she was kicked and stepped on.
“Actually, we’d just like a real investigation to be done,” said Maxey, who added any decision on possible legal action would be up to his wife, but she is “trying to heal and is not focused on paperwork.”
Maxey said the couple has canceled plans to visit Greece in September as advised by plastic surgeon, who said the sun would be bad for scar tissue.
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