Jevon Butler was out for a bike ride near the Tucker Road Community Center in Fort Washington, Maryland, when he had a close encounter with a black bear.

The eighth grader was near the archery range near Bock Road, which backs to a wooded area, when he said he stopped to check his phone. And that’s when he had an odd feeling.

“I heard leaves moving,” but, “the day was not windy at all.”

Then, he told WTOP, he saw it.

“A black bear had popped out” of the woods and was looking at him, he said.

“It was, I would say, 500 feet away from me, then when I had made eye contact with it, it just started chasing me,” he said.

Butler, 13, said he hopped on his bike and was riding up the hill on Bock Road.

Butler said after some time, he saw the bear turn back and amble off into the woods. He sai

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