ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said they were letting the bear go. The deputies said they had no choice but to shoot it.
Two Palm Beach County deputies shot and killed a black bear in Royal Palm Beach on Saturday afternoon after hours of tracking and a standoff with multiple deputies, drones, and FWC officers, authorities said in a news release.
The bear had been sitting 50 feet up a pine tree as deputies waited below for bear trappers to come tranquilize it, a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office news release says, but the trappers didn’t arrive in time.