A beloved rugby player who’d moved from the Midwest to work as a nurse in Northern California died in what has been described as a horrific freak accident.
Bjorn “Bear” Miller, 37, from Yukon, Oklahoma, is believed to have stumbled and fallen from the cliffs at a picturesque spot as he left his car to watch the sunset in Bayview Road,Fort Bragg.
First responders found Miller’s body sprawled on rocks near the waterline, roughly 70 feet below a steep cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean at about 8.30am in the morning, with his car parked nearby.
Authorities said his injuries were consistent with a significant fall.
His body was discovered by Josh Brown and his young son, who initially didn’t realize what they’d stumbled across.
Millar may have parked his Jeep too close to the edge in an area without a guardrail for protection, Brown told theThe Mendocino Coast News.
“I think he might have thought there was more room at the edge, got out, and walked around to the passenger side of his door. I believe that’s when he fell. He probably knocked himself unconscious, and if the tide was high, that might have been enough to kill him,” Brown told the outlet.
Miller’s brother, Kelton, said police had told the family he was the victim of a freak accident,he told KOKO News.
”We believe, based on speaking with the sheriffs and based on what I’ve seen of pictures and the area, that he had just out and walked around and fallen off,” his brother Kelton Miller told the outlet.
Miller had been working as a traveling nurse in California before he died.
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