Police: Man Confronting Bear Accidentally Kills Brother
February 10, 2022 3:59PM PST
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say a man in southern Oregon trying to protect his home from a bear instead fatally shot his brother by mistake, then killed himself.
Josephine County Undersheriff Travis Snyder says the man called 911 around 7 a.m. Tuesday and told dispatchers he had “accidentally shot his brother while loading a gun” after being startled by the bear.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports deputies went to the home in Sunny Valley, an unincorporated community in the southwest corner of the state.
There they found a man dead from a gunshot wound.
Snyder says they checked the residence and found a second man who had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Their names weren’t released.
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