Ellsworth County officials said a bison killed a man in an area northwest of Bushton on Sunday, and the animal also injured a sheriff’s deputy.
The deputy was injured Sunday night in an area near K-4 Highway and 5th Road. He was trying to get a bison from the highway back onto a pasture when the bison charged him. He was in stable condition after surgery at Salina Regional Health Center. Officials said a Rice County deputy arrived at the scene and shot the bison as it was getting ready to attack the Ellsworth County deputy a second time.
On Monday morning, the body of 56-year-old Scott Schroeder of Bushton was found by his aunt in a pen north of the location where the deputy was injured. Schroeder was dead at the scene, and it’s believed that he was killed before the deputy was injured.
