Crime & Safety

Photo Of Mountain Lion Roaming Mountain View, Shared by Resident

A Patch reader on South Rengstorff Avenue in Mountain View snapped a photo of the mountain lion as it lingered at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday near her apartment complex.

"When we were taking picture of him, he jumped off the fence and went to the next apartment complex. But he was huge!" the reader wrote.

Updated story, Tuesday, 11:45 p.m.: Mountain View Mountain Lion Sedated & Safe!

Original story, Tuesday, 6:50 p.m.:  POLICE ALERT: Possible Mountain Lion on S. Rengstorff Avenue.


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