The Aspen Times reports that Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials followed the bear’s trail in the morning and killed it on Highway 82 shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday.
A woman and her husband say they saw the bear Monday walking toward them on a trail in Aspen and stepped aside. As the animal passed, it charged the woman and bit her thigh before running off.
Officials say the woman’s injury was treated at a hospital and did not appear serious.
Officials say the carcass will be taken to the state’s Wildlife Health Laboratory for a necropsy and then sent to a laboratory in Wyoming for DNA testing.