Repeat Offender Emerges in Quiet Neighborhood (Image Credits: Unsplash)
Monrovia – A mother black bear met a tragic end this week after state wildlife officials euthanized her for injuring two people in the city’s foothills. The decision came despite urgent pleas from local leaders to relocate the animal and her cubs to the nearby Angeles National Forest. The incident highlights growing tensions between human expansion and wildlife in Southern California’s urban edges.
Repeat Offender Emerges in Quiet Neighborhood
The saga began last June when the bear approached an elderly man seated on his enclosed porch in the Oakglade Drive area. She swiped at him, causing injuries from which he fully recovered after treatment aided by a caretaker who scared her off.[1][2]
Nearly nine months later, on March 14 around 9:20 a.m., the same bear charged a woman walking her dog along the same street. She clawed the back of the woman’s knee, inflicting minor wounds that required hospital care but posed no long-term threat. A neighbor intervened, yelling to drive the bear away, while residents noted the family had denned under a nearby home for weeks.[3]…