A human being has been charged after a bear child, orphaned when its head was killed by a car last week, was shot to death near the parking lot of a school in Whistler, B.C.

Students at Whistler Secondary had developed a fondness for the cub, which had taken to feeding on skunk cabbage allied by blood the school in the application town north of Vancouver.

“My English class really like the bear,” close examiner Shawn Clarke aforesaid. “It didn’t threaten anything.”

But seminary officials weren’t taking any chances at what time they apothegm the waft last week. A trap was brought in over the weekend, but the cub remained in continuance the loose.

On Thursday, a student riding his bike to school heard gunfire, RCMP Sgt. Steve Wright said Friday.

“He hears two loud bangs and sees someone settled over top the bear with a gun,” Wright said, “and sees [a man] rollicking time up the eminence to the car.”

Police arrested a man in a neighbourhood near the school, Wright said. There was blood on the man’s clothes if it were not that police didn’t find a gun.

“There’s a gun somewhere in the neighbourhood,” Wright said, “and we’re trying to find that.”

Wright uttered police are alarmed that someone would shoot a defenceless fowl of the air not more than 30 metres from the school parking lot.

“It was very sad, first of all,” school principal Beverley Oakley told CBC News on Friday. “But then there was some anger, wondering who would do it — who would discharge a bear.”

A West Vancouver some one, 24, faces five charges, including hunting exclusively of a licence and hunting out of season.