Colorado mother fights off mountain lion that attacked her 5-year-old son
The woman was inside of her Colorado home Friday night when she heard the screams.
She ran outside to discover a mountain lion on her 5-year-old son, who had been playing with an older brother, according to the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office.
So the woman, whom authorities haven’t identified, sprang into action. She “was able to physically remove her son from the mountain lion” and received minor injuries to her hands and legs in the process, the sheriff’s office said in a news release