(Attack #4) A 6-year-old boy, Justin Mellon, received minor injuries resulting from a lion attack. Laura remains blind in one eye and partially paralyzed. (Attack #3) A lion attacked a 5-year-old girl, Laura Small, in Caspers Regional Park, Orange County, resulting in a $2 million court judgment against Orange County. A rabid lion injured a woman and child in Morgan Hill, Santa Clara County. A 7-year-old boy was killed by two lions while playing among oak trees some distance from his home in Quartz Valley, Siskiyou County. This list is the same as the one maintained by the California department of Fish and Game except for the August 1993 attack.ġ9 June. There were no deaths in California from lion attacks from 1910 through 1993.Ī separate page lists some encounters in California that did not involve physical contact by mountain lions on people.
and Canada not including California.ĭeaths are highlighted in red text. See also the companion page List of Mountain Lion Attacks On People in the U.S. and Canada for an introduction to this page, bibliography and abbreviation list. See Mountain Lion Attacks On People in the U.S. This page is a complete list of all attacks that involve physical contact by mountain lions on people in California through 26 January 2007. Helen McGinnis has compiled a list of all attacks she knows of up to, and produced a map of all the attacks through 2013 see her page.
You can navigate to her other pages from that archived main page. For example, see her main page from 12 March 2013. Fortunately, her website can still be retrieved at the Internet Archive. Linda Lewis died in a car crash in 2014, so her site is no longer online.
Mountain lion attack update#
I no longer update this page or my list of lion attacks in California. List of Mountain Lion Attacks On People in California List of Mountain Lion Attacks On People in California
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