{"id":578942,"date":"2023-06-17T03:04:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T00:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/arizona-man-fatally-mauled-by-black-bear-while-drinking-morning-coffee\/"},"modified":"2023-06-17T03:04:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T00:04:06","slug":"arizona-man-fatally-mauled-by-black-bear-while-drinking-morning-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/arizona-man-fatally-mauled-by-black-bear-while-drinking-morning-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"#Arizona man fatally mauled by black bear while drinking morning coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Arizona man died Friday after he was attacked by a black bear that dragged him down an embankment before it was fatally shot by a neighbor, officials said.<\/p>\n

Steven Jackson, 66, died in an unprovoked attack Friday morning in a wooded area of Yavapai County, the county sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

Jackson, of Tucson, was sitting at a table having a coffee on a site where he was building a cabin when the adult male bear attacked him, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

There was a struggle, and Jackson called out for help and neighbors responded, Sheriff David Rhodes said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey tried to get the bear to stop attacking him, there was honking horns, different things they were doing,\u201d Rhodes said. \u201cThere was no success in stopping the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bear dragged Jackson about 75 feet down an embankment before a neighbor arrived with a rifle and shot the animal to stop the attack, Rhodes said. By that time Jackson was dead.<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s office received multiple 911 calls about a bear mauling someone around 7:50 a.m., and deputies as well as police and animal control officers from nearby Prescott responded, officials said.<\/p>\n

Jackson had been at the campsite in the Groom Creek area for some time, and it was not unusual for him to be at the property, the sheriff\u2019s office said. <\/p>\n

There doesn\u2019t app<\/a>ear to have been any food or anything else obvious that would have attracted a bear, it said.<\/p>\n

Officials are confident that the bear responsible was killed, and there is no threat of other aggressive animals to the public.<\/p>\n

The bear that attacked Jackson is estimated to be 6 to 10 years old, but more investigation was ongoing, Darren Tucker, a field supervisor for the Arizona Game<\/a> and Fish Department, said. <\/p>\n

A necropsy, or an autopsy conducted on an animal, will also be done, he said.<\/p>\n

Sightings of bears around the Prescott area are common, and there is a robust population of black bears in the state, but Tucker said attacks like Friday’s are “super rare.” He believed the last fatal bear attack in the state was in 2011.<\/p>\n

Bears and mountain lions are also caught on doorbell cameras and other home surveillance video, he said. <\/p>\n

“We have had zero reports of any kind of aggressive or threatening behavior from a bear anywhere around here,” Tucker said.<\/p>\n

The sheriff sought to remind the public Friday that they cannot shoot bears unless the bear is a threat to themselves or someone else.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are exceeding rare circumstances and we haven\u2019t seen this before,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want people to freak out, shoot bears, shoot animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Groom Creek area is a heavily wooded area around 5 miles south of Prescott, a city north of Phoenix,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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