SEATTLE (AP) – The Latest on a cougar attack that killed one mountain biker and wounded another outside Seattle (all times local):
12:30 p.m.
A mountain biker who survived a cougar attack that killed his friend east of Seattle is still hospitalized.
Washington State Fish and Wildlife Police confer with an individual from the King County Medical Examiner’s and a King County Sheriff’s deputy on a remote gravel road above Snoqualmie, WA., following a fatal cougar attack. Saturday May 19, 2018. One man was killed and another seriously injured when they encountered a cougar Saturday while mountain biking in Washington state, officials said. (Alan Berner /The Seattle Times via AP)
Harborview Medical Center spokeswoman Susan Gregg said the 31-year-old man was in satisfactory condition Sunday.
He and a 32-year-old man were riding on a trail in the Cascade Mountain foothills on Saturday when the mountain lion began following them.
Authorities said they did everything right, getting off their bikes, making noise and trying to scare the animal off. One even smacked it with his bike after it charged.
The cougar ran off, but it returned and attacked when the men got back on their bikes. State wildlife agents used dogs to track the cougar and found it in a tree. They shot and killed it.
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12 a.m.
Authorities say one man was killed and his friend injured when a cougar attacked them during a morning mountain bike ride outside Seattle.
The cougar was later found up a tree near the dead man’s body, where agents for the state’s Fish and Wildlife police shot and killed it hours after the Saturday attack, the Seattle Times reported.
The names of neither man were immediately released.
The injured man was in satisfactory condition at a hospital. Authorities say the cougar initially attacked him before running away. Moments later, it returned with deadly results.
Rich Beausoleil, the state’s bear and cougar specialist, says it was only the second fatality in Washington state in the last 94 years.
Washington State Fish and Wildlife Police confer with an individual from the King County Medical Examiner’s office on a remote gravel road above Snoqualmie, Wash., following a fatal cougar attack, Saturday, May 19, 2018. One man was killed and another seriously injured when they encountered a cougar Saturday while mountain biking in Washington state, officials said. (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times via AP)
Washington State Fish and Wildlife Police leave the scene on a remote King County road near the site of a fatal cougar attack Saturday May 19, 2018 in East King County, Wash. One man was killed and another seriously injured when they encountered a cougar Saturday while mountain biking in Washington state, officials said. (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times via AP)
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