Steven Jackson, of Tucson, was sitting at a table having a coffee on a site where he was building a cabin when the adult male bear attacked him, the sheriff’s office said.
Steven Jackson, 66, died in an unprovoked attack Friday morning in a wooded area of Yavapai County, the county sheriff’s office said.
“They tried to get the bear to stop attacking him, there was honking horns, different things they were doing,” Rhodes said. “There was no success in stopping the attack.” Jackson had been at the campsite in the Groom Creek area for some time, and it was not unusual for him to be at the property, the sheriff’s office said.
The bear that attacked Jackson is estimated to be 6 to 10 years old, but more investigation was ongoing, Darren Tucker, a field supervisor for the Arizona Game and Fish Department, said.Sightings of bears around the Prescott area are common, and there is a robust population of black bears in the state, but Tucker said attacks like Friday's are "super rare." He believed the last fatal bear attack in the state was in 2011.
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