Wisconsin boy, 12, shoots bear as it mauls his father

"Owen was a hero. He shot that bear and killed it on top of me," says dad Ryan Beierman.

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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."

The attack happened in Siren, Burnett County, on 6 September, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

The pair were hunting for black bear near the family's cabin when they spotted the 200lb (91kg) bruin.

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