Dead bear wrapped in tarp found in Kamloops alley
KAMLOOPS – A dead bear, wrapped in a tarp, was found in a back alley in downtown Kamloops earlier this week.
The bear was found Monday, May 25, in an alleyway near First Avenue, between Nicola Street and Battle Street.
Stephanie Patsula was walking home when she saw what she describes as 'a corpse…all wrapped up.' Patsula believes the bear had been poached and left in the alleyway, but added that nothing on the animal appeared to be removed as trophy.
Conservation Officer Kevin Van Damme is not willing to say the bear, which was found wrapped in a tarp, was poached or even disposed of in any illegal way.
“We don’t know how this bear arrived there,” he says, adding the bear could have been hunted lawfully and deposited accidentally.
Van Damme says a necropsy was performed and it was determined the bear was shot with a rifle.
“There were gunshot wounds (and) there was evidence of bullets,” Van Damme says.
He would not comment on the investigation, including if criminal charges could be laid.
Anyone with information about this bear is asked to phone the B.C. Conservation Officer Service’s line at the 1-877-952-7277.
To contact a reporter for this story, email Dana Reynolds at dreynolds@infonews.ca or call 250-819-6089. To contact an editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.
— With files from The Canadian Press.
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A beautiful living breathing animal – one human takes that all away – why? To see what it is like to kill? For the love of killing? Sport? Just plain ignorance and a cold heart! Then to be so low and let this beautiful bear rot in a laneway – whoever did this, in my opinion, is an absolute coward! I am glad no children saw this horrible site. Accident – of please! Cruel – YES!
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I’m so tiered of people taking in there own hands to kill what we should look at as a gift when there none left because we keep taking there homes away from the animals and kill them please can you tell me who gives us the right they do have brains and feelings to there not a piece of meat that doesn’t hurt or cry and when I my grand kids ask me what it was like to see them because there’s no more left what do I say who do I blame give nature a chance back off and try to give some kindness please.
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