‘He would’ve killed me’: Utah man who stopped to help stranger attacked by aggressive bull

Cassidy Wixom, KSL.com

NEWCASTLE, Utah — A Newcastle man was severely injured this week aft getting attacked by a bull he was helping to get disconnected a stranger’s property.

Mark Sargent, 44, was going for a emblematic thrust Monday pinch his woman erstwhile they decided to extremity by Old Irontown. That’s erstwhile Sargent saw a man trying to get cattle disconnected his property, and since he has a inheritance successful cattle, Sargent decided to thief him.

“I’ve been astir cattle astir of my life, truthful that’s why I stopped disconnected and I helped. I’m not a alien astir livestock,” he said.

The 2 herded a mates cows disconnected nan property, past Sargent utilized his motortruck to push a immense bull toward nan gross astatine nan extremity of nan property.

Once nan bull was astatine nan gate, Sargent sewage retired of nan truck. But nan fierce bull — alternatively of continuing done nan gross — turned astir and ran backmost toward him.

The bull threw Sargent much than 15 feet successful nan aerial and 25 feet down nan hill, busting up his hep bony and pelvic bony and bruising respective ribs.

“It conscionable happened truthful speedy that I couldn’t do thing astir it different than protect my head. That’s fundamentally what was going done my mind is protect my caput because if he had deed maine straight connected my head, he would’ve killed me. So I took astir of nan rustle successful my hep and my broadside area,” he said.

While waiting for an ambulance to arrive, Sargent said he saw nan spot proprietor and nan cattle proprietor get into a beingness fight. He wasn’t judge what it was astir aliases really it sewage solved, arsenic he was preoccupied pinch his “very painful” injuries.

“I was trying to get up and get to nan motortruck and make myself arsenic comfortable arsenic possible, which did not happen,” he said.

Sargent underwent hep replacement room and is now facing a agelong recovery. He expects to beryllium successful nan infirmary until Saturday.

Sargent isn’t judge why nan cattle were connected nan spot initially, aliases why nan cattle proprietor wasn’t helping them get nan cattle disconnected nan property. But since he happened to beryllium there, Sargent said he conscionable wanted to help.

“I’m conscionable irritated because, obviously, it’s not a very bully animal and there’s small kids moving astir there. If that would person happened to 1 of them kids, it would’ve killed them.”

The bull tried to ram 2 different guys who were pinch Sargent and nan spot owner, but nan bull only connected pinch him, he said.

The Iron County Sheriff’s Office issued a property merchandise Tuesday that said 1 man was gored by a bull and 2 different men were progressive successful a beingness altercation, but it had very fewer details. Sargent emphasized he was not gored by nan bull — since nan bull did not person horns — and he was only thrown by nan animal.

The sheriff’s agency connection said nan men progressive successful nan altercation did not property charges against each other, and nan bull’s proprietor was located and nan bull was removed from nan area.

Sargent utilized to beryllium a bull rider, but said he is going to beryllium staying distant from cattle for a while aft this experience. Sargent’s sister set up a GoFundMe fundraiser to thief salary for his aesculapian expenses.