Grizzly Bear Is Fatally Shot After Killing California Woman

Grizzly Bear Is Fatally Shot After Killing California Woman
A bear trap set by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks sets in the camping area in Ovando, Mont., on July 7, 2021. Tom Bauer/Missoulian via AP
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HELENA Mont.—A grizzly bear that pulled a California woman from her tent and killed her this week was fatally shot early Friday by wildlife officials using night-vision goggles to stake out a chicken coop that the animal raided near the small Montana town where the woman was attacked.

Federal wildlife workers shot the bear shortly after midnight when it approached a trap set near the coop about 2 miles from Ovando, where 65-year-old Leah Davis Lokan of Chico, California, was killed Tuesday, said Greg Lemon with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.