a manDale Chorman posing successful beforehand of a tree. (Courtesy Dale Chorman’s family)

A Homer man died Sunday greeting aft being attacked by a moose.

According to an online dispatch posted by Alaska State Troopers, a cattle moose charged astatine 70-year-old Dale Chorman and different person.

Journalist and writer Tom Kizzia was asked by Chorman’s family to speak connected their behalf. He said Chorman and his friend were looking astatine newborn moose calves connected Chorman’s spot located eastbound of Homer adjacent Fernwood Drive erstwhile nan moose charged astatine them.

“They were going down to spot really adjacent they could get to spot if they could get immoderate pictures of these newborn twins, but it was really thick, existent dense portion of nan woods,” Kizzia said, “it was heavy alder and elderberry, for illustration we cognize astir here, and abruptly retired of nowhere, that moose was coming astatine them. They hadn’t seen it.”

Medics declared Chorman dormant aft arriving astatine nan scene. Troopers opportunity nan moose has near nan area. As of Sunday, troopers are still investigating nan incident and nan nonstop origin of death.

According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, cattle moose pinch calves thin to beryllium fierce successful precocious outpouring and summer. The section recommends moving down a coagulated entity for illustration a character if a moose charges astatine you.