Lake City, Colorado – A black bear and three cubs attacked a guy in his Colorado home after they burst through a sliding glass door and he couldn’t get them to leave.
Following Thursday night’s attack in Lake City, a 400-person community in southwestern Colorado, state wildlife managers killed all four bears. The man suffered serious injuries, but he did not require hospitalization, Colorado Parks & Wildlife stated in a statement Saturday.
“It’s certainly lucky we didn’t have a fatality because it was so close,” Colorado wildlife officer Lucas Martin said in a statement.
The 74-year-old man attempted to shoo the adult female bear away with a kitchen chair, but it slammed him against a wall and clawed at him, according to the wildlife agency.
The bear attacked the man’s head, neck, arms, shoulder, abdomen, and leg before he fled to a bedroom.
A sheriff’s deputy scared the bears away, and medics treated the victim at his home. His identity was not revealed.
Wildlife managers believe the bears were used to humans after receiving reports of bears raiding homes in the region in search of food.
They spotted the four bears near the man’s house and killed them, as is the usual procedure for dealing with problem bears who associate people with food.
“It creates a very complex situation to mitigate,” Martin told reporters. “Unfortunately cub bears that are taught these behaviors by their mother may result in generations of conflict between bears and people.”
This was Colorado’s first reported bear assault this year. There were six in 2023.
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