Young Boy Killed By Bear In American Fork Canyon

(KUTV) PROVO A family camping trip turns tragic when an 11-year-old boy is killed by a bear. Now wildlife officials are out looking for the killer bear.

The Utah County sheriff's office says just after 11 Sunday night they got a call of a missing 11-year-old boy at the Timpooneeke trail area.

Detective and patrol officers immediately thought they had a kidnapping on their hands.

They closed down American Fork Canyon and the roads to Wasatch County and Sundance.

But they soon found evidence of a bear in the area. They started following bear tracks and found the boy about 400 yards from his tent.

“We believe that this may have actually been an incident where the bear got into the tent and pulled this young boy out,†said Utah County Sheriff Lieutenant Dennis Harris.

Wildlife resource officers are out searching with dogs for the bear. Utah County deputies say a bear was spotted in the area Sunday morning.

How tragic. Our prayers go out to the family.

The suspect bear was shot and killed this afternoon.

They got the bear already? Wow, how come no one can find Osama?

Maybe the U.S Army can contract the tracker and hounds Ut. DWR used.

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Wow, how come no one can find Osama?

They don't have the right fellows looking for him and there are too many "rules" to follow.

When we get to be a society again similar to the one that existed after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, some old country boy will put a bullet between that Sand N!&&@&'$ eyes.

Anyway, was the bear a black and do they even get any Grizzly in north Utah from yellowstone spill over?