Father & Son Kill Mother Bear And Her Two Cubs

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Why would they do this?

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Waiting for the OT Hunters to come in here and justify it.

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How could they bear to do this?

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Waiting for the OT Hunters to come in here and justify it.

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In a criminal complaint, prosecutors said that the April 14 video showed Owen Renner shoot twice at the mother bear, at which point her cubs began “shrieking.”

The Renners listened for “several minutes” and then realized that it was not the dead bear that was whimpering, but her cubs, according to court records. Then, from a short distance away, Andrew Renner picked up his rifle, looked through the scope and fired “several more shots, killing the newborn bear cubs,” the documents allege. The documents stated that during the slayings, Renner could be heard telling his son, “It doesn’t matter. Bear down.”

They dragged the mother bear from the den and the elder Renner threw the cub carcasses in the snow, saying, “I’m going to get rid of these guys,” according to court records.

In another video clip, court documents say, the 18-year-old told his father that the sow’s collar had been removed; the father responded, “We’re going to skin it that way,” pointing away from the den. Owen Renner then said, “They’ll never be able to link it to us,” according to the court records.

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Prosecutors said the men “butchered” the mother bear and placed the remains in game bags. Two days later, they returned to collect the shell casings and collar and to dispose of the cubs’ bodies, the prosecutors said.

When Andrew Renner took the sow’s remains to a Fish and Game Department office on April 30, he told officials there that he and his son realized that the bear had “teats” after they killed it but that there were no signs of any cubs in the area, according to court records. He also falsely stated on an official document that he killed the bear when, in fact, his son did, according to the documents.

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The Renners were charged this week with numerous crimes in the incident, including one count each of unlawfully taking a female bear with cubs and two counts each of unlawfully taking a bear cub. The elder Renner was also charged with tampering with physical evidence.

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