By Bill Lindelof
blindelof@sacbee.com
A Washoe County deputy shot and killed a 600-pound bear that a wildlife official had forced from a building crawl space.
The deputy was helping the Nevada Department of Wildlife remove a bear from a condominium crawl space in Incline Village on Tuesday afternoon when he was forced to shoot.
Two dogs trained to help remove the bear at first couldn't get the 10-year-old male black bear to budge.
Subsequently, wildlife department employee Carl Lackey tried to tranquilize the bear under the building, but the animal charged. Lackey then used a spray to rout the bear and deployed the dogs again, a sheriff's department news release states.
This time the bear surfaced from the crawlspace and Lackey shot the animal in the shoulder with a tranquilizer dart. Seconds later, the bear charged at a deputy stationed nearby.
The deputy fell and then fired one round from a shotgun, killing the bear.
The animal was known as a "problem bear," the release states. Several attempts had been made to capture the animal over several years because of his habit of breaking into residences.
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