A student at Rutgers was killed on Sunday by a bear.
Darsh Patel, a Rutgers senior, was hiking with four friends in the Apshawa Preserve when they came across a 300-pound, 4-year-old bear.
The hikers ran from the bear, but the bear fatally attacked Patel. When police arrived on the scene, they found the bear lingering by his body.
Though the police tried to scare the bear away, they ended up shooting the bear twice.
An autopsy will be conducted on the bear to see if it had a disease that may have led it to attack Patel.
West Milford Police Chief Tim Storbeck called the incident "a rare occurrence." According to New York Daily News, the last fatal bear attack on a human on record was in 1852.
New York Daily News reports that the area of New Jersey where Patel was killed is also known as bear country, as there are approximately 1,800 to 2,400 bears in the area.
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