2011 WWU grad killed in lion attack at Calif. animal sanctuary

A 24-year-old Western Washington University graduate who volunteered at Project Survival's Cat Haven in the foothills east of Fresno, Calif., was killed Wednesday when she was attacked by a 4-year-old male African lion in its enclosure.

A co-worker tried in vain to draw the lion away from the woman and into another enclosure. An arriving Fresno County sheriff's deputy, seeing the lion would not let anyone provide medical aid to the woman, shot and killed the animal.