Colorado Runner Killed Starving Kitten

You may have come across a story of a Colorado jogger who killed a mountain lion with his bare hands--shades of mountain men to match the Rockies.  As usual the real story is much more morally equivocal.  Sure, perhaps the runner was acting in self defense, but he what he actually killed was a three to four month hold kitten that was slowing starving to death.  The final necropsy report from the Colorado Parks & Wildlife veterinarian showed the starving kitten weighed about 24 pounds when Travis Kauffman struggled with the male cat, hitting the him on the head with a rock, and eventually killing him by stepping on his throat, suffocating him. The mountain lion's siblings later scavenged his carcass.  Kauffman is 31 years old and weighs in at about 150lbs. He suffered minor wounds during the encounter.