Ryan Beierman told The Minnesota Star Tribune the bear pierced its fangs into his forehead during the attack. He had to get 23 stitches.

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,

A father-son hunting trip went awry in Wisconsin earlier this month when a black bear went on the attack, and the 12-year-old is now being hailed as a hero for saving his dad. The AP reports that 43-year-old Ryan Beierman was near the family's hunting cabin in "the thick western Wisconsin woods" on Sept.

Owen saved his father's life with a quick-witted heroic act, when a black bear suddenly struck in Wisconsin. However, there was more to it than that. Father and son were enjoying themselves on a hunting trip when a black bear weighing 90kg suddenly attacked the father.