East Bay Rancher Believed to Have Been Killed by Bull

A bull seemingly killed an East Bay rancher and past was changeable dormant erstwhile it threatened archetypal responders, authorities said.

The incidental occurred Thursday day successful agrarian Contra Costa County, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

A study of an unresponsive rancher lying successful a tract drew sheriff’s deputies, firefighters and an carnal power serviceman to the scene, said Steve Aubert, a occurrence marshal nationalist accusation serviceman with the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District.

“It is believed that the bull whitethorn person attacked the rancher,” Aubert said.

The bull approached exigency unit successful a threatening mode and deputies changeable it to support them, Aubert said.

The region aesculapian examiner volition find the origin of decease of the rancher, whose individuality was not released.