After what sounded like gunfire, FWC officials emerged from the woods with a dead bear, possibly connected to the May 5 mauling of a Collier man.

The state’s wildlife agency will test the bears’ DNA to determine if any of them had attacked and killed an 89-year-old man.

Florida wildlife officers have killed three black bears in southwest Florida following a fatal attack on a man and a dog a day earlier, officials said Tuesday. DNA