SIREN, Wis. — A boy saved his father's life during a bear attack earlier this month in western Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the attack happened east of Siren in southern Burnett County.

Owen Beierman, 12, took aim at the bear as it pinned down his dad while they were on a legal hunting trip. "Owen was a hero," Ryan Beierman, 43, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. "He shot that bear and killed it on top of me.

On Friday, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said a man was cited after shooting at a female bear and its’ three cubs. CPW said the bears were killing a man’s chickens in Trinidad, so the man took out a firearm and shot at the family of bears,