Posted on 06/16/2023 10:42:10 AM PDT by chrisinoc
PRESCOTT, Ariz. — A bear reportedly killed a person in an attack near Groom Creek in Yavapai County early Friday morning, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said.
The bear has since been killed and is no longer a threat to the community, deputies said. How the bear was killed hasn't been clarified.
Deputies from the sheriff's office and Arizona Game and Fish responded to the scene near Groom Creek to reports of the dead person. Groom Creek is about six miles south of Prescott.
Investigators are at the scene working to determine the events leading up to the attack.
This is a developing story. Tune in to 12News for the latest information.
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Let's hope it was an illegal alien border jumper.
No habeas ursus in the Constitution.
Feed the bear Viagra and put him in a cell with that Penn State professor that bangs his dog. Let the bear “blow off some steam.”
How the bear was killed hasn’t been clarified.
No habeas ursus in the Constitution.
The bear was in a 2A sanctuary county that has 18 gun stores in a population of 140,000 people. Not hard to figure out how the bear died.
The YCSO already has come out with a notice:
DO NOT SHOOT ANY BEAR UNLESS THERE IS AN IMMEDIATE THREAT. It is against the law to shoot any bear unless there is a threat to your safety or the safety of others.
im a betting fish and game have local houndmens on call...tree it kill it simple
No mention of the ‘race’ of the bear anywhere...
“IT’S COMIN’ RIGHT FOR US!!”
Yavapai County is big time gun country - and this reporter expects us to believe the bear died of climate change? :)
Almost certainly a bear of color. The white privilege bears are a lot further north.
“ No mention of the ‘race’ of the bear anywhere...”
Even stranger, there was no description of it being a “teen bear” in the title. Odd
There is about 50 small homes, dwellings or similar up there. Real back road area best to have high clearance vehicles. Bear has probably been betting into trash and list any fear of humans.
I better carry my Ruger 5.7 instead of XD-9 when I am in the back areas.
OFFICIAL UPDATE ON THIS MORNING INCIDENT
PRESCOTT, ARIZONA ( June 16, 2023) – At approximately 7:50 this morning, the YCSO dispatch center received multiple 911 calls about a man who was being mauled by a bear in the Groom Creek Area. When YCSO deputies and Prescott PD arrived at the scene, which was in a heavily wooded remote area, they found Steven Jackson, 66 years old of Tucson dead of an apparent bear attack, and the bear dead nearby. Deputies called officials from Arizona Game and Fish to respond to the scene as well.
From multiple witness accounts and preliminary investigation of the scene, Mr. Jackson had been sitting having coffee at a table on his property where he was building a home. It appears that a male black bear attacked Mr. Jackson, taking him unaware, and dragged him approximately 75 feet down an embankment.
Neighbors who heard the victim screaming tried to intervene through shouts and car horns, but the bear did not let go of Mr. Jackson until one neighbor was able to retrieve his rifle and shoot the bear to get him to disengage. Unfortunately, by that time Mr. Jackson has succumbed to his horrible injuries.
According to Arizona Game and Fish and confirmed by YCSO this attack, which appeared to be predatory in nature, is highly uncommon and unusual, with only one other fatal attack known since the mid 1980s. At first glance there did not appear to be anything on the site that would have precipitated a attack by the bear, such as food, a cooking site or access to water.
There is no threat to the public as this bear has been put down. The location where the attack occurred was not near recreational sites for camping, but officials still caution revelers to take precautions when camping, such as locking up food in a vehicle and not leaving out items such as toothpaste that may bring a bear to your campsite.
YCSO will be conducting the death investigation, while Game and Fish will investigate what may have caused the attack, but officials at the moment do not have a theory other than a predatory response by the bear. Both investigations are just beginning, and more information will be release when available.
YCSO and Game and Fish caution people to not shoot bears that they see unless there is an imminent threat to you or someone else. - YCSO
And here he is! Pretty good size bear...
The Safeway bear of June 4! And topic of conversation in PV for the next 48 hours.
We visit friends in Prescott every winter & went for a walk in their neighborhood on the mountain. He carried his 9mm for bears & mountain lions.
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