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Taylen Brooks, the 21-year-old who died in a mountain lion attack in El Dorado County on Saturday, March 23, 2024, is seen in an undated photo provided by the family.
“At 1:13 p.m., the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call indicating that two people had been attacked by a mountain lion,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
The attack in El Dorado County is believed to be the first fatal incident involving a mountain lion in California in 20 years.
The cougar is also commonly known as mountain lion, puma, mountain cat, catamount, or panther. The sub-population in Florida is known as the Florida panther. Over 130 attacks have been documented in [1] North America in the past 100 years, with 28 attacks resulting in fatalities.
Including the attack in El Dorado County, there have been 22 documented mountain lion attacks involving 24 people in California since 1986, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Deputies began searching the area, and at around 1:46 p.m., they found the mountain lion crouched next to the older brother. Shots were fired to scare off the animal. The 21-year-old was dead by ...
A man has been left dead in California after a mountain lion attacked two brothers, the first fatal attack of its kind in two decades in the state.. An 18-year-old man and his 21-year-old brother ...
ABC News reported that it was the first mountain lion attack in the state in more than two decades. ... the young men were out looking for shed deer antlers in the El Dorado National Forest about ...