we’re over on east coast, black bears only- and they never shoot them- always trap them and relocate them- but many say they just find their way back eventually- don’t know if it’s true- the only bad experience was a couple years ago- real hot dry summer, a starving bear followed a couple of women for a few miles back out to their car- getting close enough to reach out and swat at the women- but noone was hurt- I’m betting the women had food in their backpack.
supposedly there have only been 59 killings by black bear in 100 years- but still- it does happen kinda sorta often- Most often though encounters are just nuisance bears-
Or maybe a mother bear. I imagine they can seem predatory :-) but even that, not always.
At our cabin community in the Sierras some rotten kids were throwing rocks at 2 Cubs in a tree. The mother stashed them there so she could go foraging. Well she came back. Most of us were half hoping she would attack them, but not really, then it would be the end of her and the babies. I actually never saw it, there was an eye witness walking by and that’s why he didn’t have a chance to give those kids a thrashing.
But the mama bear climbed up in the tree and put her arms around her babies to protect them. So that she would take the rocks instead of them.