The 32-year-old biker who was killed by a starving cougar in a horrific attack that left another man injured in Washington State has been identified.
SJ Brooks was killed on Saturday morning during a mountain-bike ride with 31-year-old Isaac Sederbaum near North Bend, about 30 miles east of Seattle, when the cougar attacked.
Authorities said the two men did everything right, getting off their bikes, making noise and trying to scare the animal off. One even smacked it with his bike after it charged.
The cougar ran off, but it returned and attacked when the men got back on their bikes.
Sederbaum told KOMO News that at one point his entire head was inside the cougar's mouth, but when his friend began to run away, the cougar dropped him and chased Brooks.
He then rode his bike to try and find reception so he could call 911.
The injured man called 911 just after 11am, and shouted: 'Can you hear me? Help!' The call then cut out.
Sederbaum survived the attack but was rushed to Harborview Medical Center with serious injuries.
'The cougar had actually dragged the victim back to the wood line and he was found dead there,' Sargent Ryan Abbott from the King County Sheriff's office said.
According to the Seattle Bike Blog, Brooks was an avid biker, who co-founded Friends on Bikes Seattle to create a bike community where women/trans/femme/non-binary people of color could come together and have fun on bikes. 'Certain cultures and certain genders aren't associated with bicycling even though all those people do bicycle,' Brooks said in October 2017.
According to the Seattle Times, Brooks was the director of operations at Hillman City Collaboratory and was a research assistant at William James College in Massachusetts.
Brooks' LinkedIn profile also reveals he had been the office manager of G&O Family Cyclery in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood.
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