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Until then, Sheriff Deeds is still warning the community to be on the lookout for a killer cat. So we're trying to follow up on those instances."įor now, everyone is waiting of the coroner's final autopsy to find out who - or what - killed Whiteley. "Now people are coming out and saying, 'Yeah, I had this happen to me, I heard this, 'I saw this on the game camera'. "But this has never happened, where a person was attacked." "Sightings of bobcats and large cats have been going on for years," Hood claimed. He told WFAA he is now collecting pictures and statements from locals who swear they have seen predatory cats in the area before. "We stand behind the preliminary findings of the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office, that rule out a suicide and a homicide on the death in question." "It appears we have two conflicting reports from two agencies that are experts in their field," his office said in a statement. While there was a recent confirmed sighting from Rowlett in Dallas County - the first in the the area in at least 20 years, which was caught on camera - that was nearly 100 miles away and is considered "unrelated to this event." Snake-Sized Toxic Worms and Dog-Sized Lizards Are Invading the Southeastern US "A Unites States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services trapper also evaluated the evidence and came to the same conclusion as our staff."Īccording to the TPWD, fatal mountain lion attacks on people are extremely rare in the past 100 years, there have been fewer than 30 confirmed deaths due to cougar attacks nationwide, and never in Texas. "There is not any evidence of a predatory attack by a mountain lion at the location where the victim was found." 82: February 12, 2020: Shannon: On Februan elk carcass was found which showed sign indicative of mountain lion predation.

The genetic analyses could not determine the sex or population of origin of the mountain lion. "Texas Game Wardens, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologists, and subject matter experts conducted an inspection of the scene," the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said in a statement. February 20, 2020: Texas: Genetic analyses confirmed an adult deer was been killed by a mountain lion. More recently, a look at a mountain lion sighting map on the TPWD website (shows reports of cougars in at least 40 Texas counties from 2009 until 2019. However, the plot twisted on Sunday when the game wardens and the trapper announced that there was no evidence of an attack by a mountain lion. They then summoned the Texas Game Wardens and a governmental trapper with the US Department of Agriculture, who specialized in tracking and removing mountain lions, in an attempt to hunt the animal down. The Sheriff's office immediately issued an alert to residents, especially warning those with small children or pets to keep them inside, as there was a possible man-eater on the loose.

The body was sent to Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office for an autopsy, where preliminary examination found he had died from an animal attack, most likely a mountain lion. Luckiest Man on Earth Survives 15ft Fall With Pouncing Tiger on Top of Him