Kitties
December 10, 1994
Killed: Iris M. Kenna, 56, of San Diego; high school counselor, birder. Five-foot-4, 115 pounds.
Where: Lookout Fire Road in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, 30 miles east of San Diego. The attack site is about 5 miles from the Pacific Crest Trail north of Mount Laguna.
The attack: Kenna was apparently attacked from behind and dragged off the trail. Her body was found after some other hikers came across her glasses and daypack.
The lion: An adult male was killed. It had recently eaten a deer when it was slain, indicating it did not have trouble hunting its usual prey.
January 8, 2004
Killed: Mark Jeffrey Reynolds, 35, of Foothill Ranch; account executive with a sports marketing company, competitive mountain biker.
Where: Cactus Hill Trail in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park, a county park several miles east of Irvine.
The attack: Reynolds’ bike was found on the trail; its chain was off, and he had apparently been repairing it. Speculation is that he had been crouching next to it when the lion attacked. His body was found after the lion, protective of the cache, attacked another bicyclist later that day at the same spot.
The lion: A 2-year-old male, 110 pounds, was killed.
There have been four attacks in Orange County since 1986, one of them fatal. In that time period, there was a single non-fatal attack in Los Angeles County
https://patch.com/california/arcadia/mountain-lion-hunting-san-gabriel-valley-backyard
Their are cats all over California - as the drough pushes deer to graze on lawns and coyotes transition to eating poodles and house cats, the mountain lions follow their prey into the urban area.
So far, not many human interactions. Like with Sharks, don’t swim alone and survival goes up dramatically.