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LAST EDITED ON Sep-26-11 AT 11:28AM (MST)[p]http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/09/23/1811140/sheriff-nevada-man-attacked-by.html
A Nevada man who was trying to protect his friend from an attacking 400-pound grizzly bear shot his friend in the chest -- and that's what killed the man, not wounds inflicted by the grizzly bear, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office in Montana.
Steve Stevenson, 39, of Winnemucca, Nev., was attacked by the bear in the Buckhorn Mountain area of the North Idaho-Montana border last Friday.
Results from a Montana State Crime Lab autopsy released Friday showed Stevenson suffered one gunshot to his chest, officials from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said.
Lincoln County Coroner Steve Schnackenberg, who viewed Stevenson's body before it was autopsied, told The Idaho Statesman he saw clear signs of the hunter having been attacked by the bear, including bites and scratch marks.
"We're pretty sure the bullet passed through the bear before it got to him," Schnackenberg said, declining to say why. "We're pretty sure of that."
Lincoln County Sheriff Roby Bowe told the Associated Press that investigators were ?fairly convinced? it was an accident.
?But the county attorney will review the final report once we're done,? Bowe said.
Stevenson grew up in Winnemucca and worked as a miner, according to an obituary posted online by Albertson Funeral Home. He is survived by a wife and two daughters.
Stevenson was part of a hunting party of four from Winnemucca, sheriff's investigators said. Another hunter in the group was Ty Bell, 20.
The pair encountered a bear that they thought was a black bear. They shot and wounded it, and it turned out to be a young boar grizzly bear. They tracked the bear to an area of heavy cover, and the bear attacked Stevenson.
Bell shot the bear several times, eventually killing it. He reported the attack that morning with his cell phone.
Investigators say the GPS coordinates for where the attack occurred are right on the Idaho-Montana border. There have been multiple sightings of grizzlies in the area, so officials urge hunters to use caution.
Since 1975, grizzly bears in the continental U.S. have been protected by the Endandered Species Act. It is illegal to kill them.
Read more: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/09/23/1811140/sheriff-nevada-man-attacked-by.html#ixzz1Z53nopQI
A Nevada man who was trying to protect his friend from an attacking 400-pound grizzly bear shot his friend in the chest -- and that's what killed the man, not wounds inflicted by the grizzly bear, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office in Montana.
Steve Stevenson, 39, of Winnemucca, Nev., was attacked by the bear in the Buckhorn Mountain area of the North Idaho-Montana border last Friday.
Results from a Montana State Crime Lab autopsy released Friday showed Stevenson suffered one gunshot to his chest, officials from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said.
Lincoln County Coroner Steve Schnackenberg, who viewed Stevenson's body before it was autopsied, told The Idaho Statesman he saw clear signs of the hunter having been attacked by the bear, including bites and scratch marks.
"We're pretty sure the bullet passed through the bear before it got to him," Schnackenberg said, declining to say why. "We're pretty sure of that."
Lincoln County Sheriff Roby Bowe told the Associated Press that investigators were ?fairly convinced? it was an accident.
?But the county attorney will review the final report once we're done,? Bowe said.
Stevenson grew up in Winnemucca and worked as a miner, according to an obituary posted online by Albertson Funeral Home. He is survived by a wife and two daughters.
Stevenson was part of a hunting party of four from Winnemucca, sheriff's investigators said. Another hunter in the group was Ty Bell, 20.
The pair encountered a bear that they thought was a black bear. They shot and wounded it, and it turned out to be a young boar grizzly bear. They tracked the bear to an area of heavy cover, and the bear attacked Stevenson.
Bell shot the bear several times, eventually killing it. He reported the attack that morning with his cell phone.
Investigators say the GPS coordinates for where the attack occurred are right on the Idaho-Montana border. There have been multiple sightings of grizzlies in the area, so officials urge hunters to use caution.
Since 1975, grizzly bears in the continental U.S. have been protected by the Endandered Species Act. It is illegal to kill them.
Read more: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/09/23/1811140/sheriff-nevada-man-attacked-by.html#ixzz1Z53nopQI
