Sheriff Furlong was right all along

Surveillance video of a mountain lion attack on sheep in a barn off the end of Snyder/Golden Eagle Lane proves that Sheriff Ken Furlong was right all along. Nobody was shooting sheep in Butterfield Country. It was a mountain lion attacking sheep for a quick meal. Furlong figured that the lion would take down its prey, and then come back for it later.

We here at News Carson City thought the same thing, in that we saw a mountain lion bounding across Golden Eagle Lane the night of that horrible roll-over fatal accident that claimed the life of a driver and badly injured his passenger. The vehicle was headed northbound on Golden Eagle, but for some unknown reason, suddenly swerved out of control, rolled over, ejecting the driver. He was later pronounced dead at Renown in Reno. Again, within ten minutes of the accident, a mountain lion was seen bounding over the pavement not 200 feet south of the accident scene, the animal headed back toward the river. Could the lion have jumped out in front of the GMC, prompting the driver to swerve to avoid hitting it? Possibly. An interview with the surviving passenger might shed some light on things, if the passenger was paying attention. Both were intoxicated at the time and it all probably happened within a split second. A fast running/bounding mountain lion would have been in the driver’s field of vision for probably less than a second.