List of fatal bear attacks in North America - Wikipedia According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Miller's death is the first confirmed fatal attack by a black bear in California [10][11][12] USA, Groom Creek, Arizona — The victim was sitting in a chair outside of his campsite when an adult male black bear attacked him The bear dragged him about 75 yards and began consuming him
Womans 2023 death was first fatal black bear attack on a human in . . . A woman found dead last year in a rural mountain home was the victim of the first documented fatal black bear attack on a human in California, authorities said The grim first, spotlighting California’s growing problem of bear-human encounters, occurred in Downieville, a tiny town in the Sierra Nevada, two hours northeast of the state capital
California Confirms First Documented Fatal Black Bear Attack - MeatEater After seventy-one-year-old Patrice Miller was discovered dead in her Downieville home last fall with evidence of a bear attack, the Sierra County Sheriff’s Office sought a depredation permit, which is official permission from the CDFW to trap and euthanize a bear