Lab tests connect black bear killed by Florida wildlife officers to fatal attack on man and his dog

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Lab results person connected 1 of 3 achromatic bears killed by wildlife officers successful southwest Florida to a fatal attack on a antheral and his canine a time earlier, officials said Friday. (WPLG)

JEROME, Fla. – Lab results person connected 1 of 3 achromatic bears killed by wildlife officers successful southwest Florida to a fatal attack connected a antheral and his canine a time earlier, officials said Friday.

Necropsy results revealed that a 263-pound (119-kilogram) antheral carnivore contained the partial remains of 89-year-old Robert Markel, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said successful a statement. Testing showed that aforesaid bear’s DNA was contiguous connected Markel’s body, wrong his location and connected the dog’s body.

Wildlife officials person not explicitly said that carnivore is the 1 that killed Markel, but a preliminary autopsy by the Collier County Medical Examiner recovered that Markel’s origin of decease is accordant with a carnivore attack.

Markel was attacked aboriginal Monday adjacent his location successful a agrarian country eastbound of Naples, conscionable southbound of Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area.

Wildlife officers acceptable respective traps and cameras. They killed 3 achromatic bears successful the country and sent their remains to a Gainesville lab. None of the animals tested affirmative for rabies, officials said.

Wildlife officials are inactive investigating the events that led to the attack.

Florida’s achromatic bears, which were erstwhile threatened, person progressively wandered into neighborhoods and private property successful caller years, particularly successful much agrarian areas of northbound and cardinal Florida.

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