Bear cub shot dead near Whistler high school
Staff Reporter, The Province
Published: Friday, May 09, 2008

Police in Whistler are trying to determine why someone shot a young bear cub near a high school.

A 24-year-old West Vancouver man is under arrest on suspicion of cutting the infant bruin's life short around 8:30 a.m. Thursday on a trail near Whistler Senior Secondary School, just as students were arriving for class.

Whistler RCMP said a citizen who saw the cub just before it was shot thought she heard two gunshots, then saw a man getting into a vehicle with what she believed was a shot gun.

She wrote down the license number and phoned police, who pulled the suspect over and arrested him about 15 minutes later.

Inside his car they found ammunition but no gun, that latter of which they are still searching for.

The motive of the bear's killer is not known and police continue to investigate with Conservation Services. No charges have yet.