{"id":29352,"date":"2016-08-01T23:36:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T06:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/bear-wounded-in-july-skagway-shooting-located-killed\/"},"modified":"2016-08-01T23:36:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T06:36:11","slug":"bear-wounded-in-july-skagway-shooting-located-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/bear-wounded-in-july-skagway-shooting-located-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear wounded in July Skagway shooting located, killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 A brown bear that was accidentally shot by a local police officer in Southeast Alaska last month has been killed by National Park Service personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Anchorage television station KTVA reported the bear was killed Saturday, a day after people in the Dyea area near Skagway reported seeing a limping bear. The park service says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/klgo\/learn\/news\/injured-bear-dispatched.htm\" target=\"_blank\">in a release<\/a> that it was decided to put the bear down after it was found with a \u201cdead\u2019 hind leg. Officials say the bear could not put any weight on the leg, and it didn\u2019t seem to fear people.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the bear was later found to have a broken femur and dislocated hip.<\/p>\n<p>The brown bear was <a href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/state\/2016-07-18\/skagway-brown-bear-shot-hazing-attempt\" target=\"_blank\">accidentally shot July 16<\/a> with a real bullet by a Skagway police officer who had been trying to use non-lethal means against the animal at a campground.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/local\/2016-07-31\/whale-watching-boat-sinks-18-rescued\" target=\"_blank\">Whale-watching boat sinks near Juneau, 18 rescued<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/local\/2016-08-01\/tennis-court-saving-life-no-racket\" target=\"_blank\">On the Juneau tennis court, saving a life is no racket<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/local\/2016-08-01\/becker-seek-third-assembly-term\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Becker to seek third Assembly term<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 A brown bear that was accidentally shot by a local police officer in Southeast Alaska last month has been killed by National Park Service personnel. Anchorage television station KTVA reported the bear was killed Saturday, a day after people in the Dyea area near Skagway reported seeing a limping bear. The park service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":29353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-29352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29352"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}