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Bobcat Attacks Boy Scout, Elderly Man

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Posted: 1:18 pm EDT March 31, 2009
INVERNESS, Fla. — State wildlife officials say a bobcat attacked two people in Citrus County.


According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the bobcat first attacked 10-year-old Johnathon Knecht. The boy was hiking Saturday in the Withlacoochee State Forest with his Boy Scout troupe when the bobcat jumped on his back.

The animal ran back into the woods when the other scouts came to Knecht’s aid.

It then ran onto 71-year-old Frank Womack’s property and bit the man on the leg. Wildlife officials said Tuesday that Womack killed the bobcat in self defense.

Mar 31st by Bo Terry

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