12-year-old boy shoots bear dead, rescues his father A 12-year-old boy fatally shot a black bear as it was mauling his father in Wisconsin, according to wildlife officials. Owen Beierman, 12, took aim at the bear as it pinned down his dad during 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.” The attack occurred in Siren, Burnett County, on 6 September, as they were hunting near their family cabin and spotted a 200-pound (91...