Fish and Wildlife confirmed Sunday that the mountain lion euthanized was the same one from the attack since the DNA samples collected from the scene matched the samples taken from the lion carcass.
GEORGETOWN - The family of the two young men who were attacked, one fatally, by a mountain lion in Northern California are thanking the community for the outpouring of support they've received since the incident. In a statement, the Brooks/Welsh Family and Wyatt Brooks also identified the two young men as 18-year-old Wyatt Jay Charles Brooks and 21-year-old Taylen Robert Claude Brooks.
'The cougars are all over where I live four miles up country,' said Thomas Granat who lives in Georgetown. 'We hear them all the time in the summer screaming at night.'How rare are deadly mountain lion attacks? People living in Georgetown said they are fully aware of the dangers the predators pose.'You see their droppings, you see their footprints,' said Melinda Smith who comes up to Georgetown often from Grass Valley.
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