Report: Jimmy Snuka wheelchair-bound, hooked to feeding tube at arraignment
Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka appeared Tuesday at his arraignment on third-degree murder charges in Lehigh, Pennsylvania, hooked to a feeding tube and in a wheelchair, the Allentown Morning Call reported.
The paper reported Snuka appeared in ill health.
"He is not in good shape physically or mentally," Snuka's attorney William E. Moore said, via the Morning Call. "I'm not sure he realized what was going on. I'm not sure what his cognitive abilities are."
Moore said Snuka is recovering from stomach cancer surgery and suffers from partial dementia due to head injuries suffered while wrestling.
"I don't see it ever getting better," Moore told the Call of Snuka's condition.
Snuka, 72, was charged on Tuesday in the May 1983 beating of his girlfriend, Nancy Argentino, at a motel.
"He's had head injuries, just like football players have had head injuries," Moore said. "He's suffered a number of concussions with all the antics he's done."
"His faculties are so compromised you wouldn't know what he's saying. He doesn't understand a simple conversation. You put him up against a sharp prosecutor asking, 'Remember 30 years ago when you said this ...,' he has no recollection."
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