A bear was euthanized after it wandered into a New Jersey Dollar General store and bit a 90-year-old woman before being led outside by a patron, authorities in Vernon Township said Wednesday.

The 175-pound female black bear was first spotted “ behaving erratically and moving in and out of traffic ” Tuesday morning alongside Route 94, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection told the Bergen Record. Police fired rubber bullets at it, and the bear bolted into the woods.

The banished bear emerged from the trees at about 1:40 p.m., which is when someone near the Dollar General reported a “nuisance bear” lurking . Police shooed it away again and reported the incident to New Jersey Fish and Wildlife, authorities said.

A little more than two hours later, at 3:55 according to

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