Deputies arrived round 1.30pm to seek out the youthful brother with "traumatic injuries" to his face. Minutes later, deputies noticed a crouched mountain lion subsequent to the older brother on the bottom, in keeping with the assertion.

They fired their weapons and scared off the mountain lion, however the older brother was deceased.

Wardens with California's Department of Fish and Wildlife are trying to find the mountain lion.

Mountain lions have attacked people beforehand, however the final deadly encounter was in 2004 in Orange County, in keeping with a verified listing saved by the fish and wildlife division.