By Don Markus, The Baltimore Sun
5:30 p.m. EDT, November 4, 2011
Before this year’s Maryland bear hunt, Colton Lucas was considered a typical 12-year-old living in the Western Maryland town of Kitzmiller. He loved to hunt and fish with his father, Joe, and play football with his friends. His priorities haven’t changed in the past two weeks, but the seventh-grader has become a local celebrity. And a hero.
He’s received the acclaim for killing a bear — a 376-pound male, which according to Mayor Mike Brady had been terrorizing the residents of Kitzmiller for several years.
It was the largest bear killed of the 65 taken during the four-day controlled hunt that ended Oct. 27.
Karen Lucas, who grew up in the town of about 300 on the Potomac River’s northern neck near the West Virginia border, could sense the civic pride after the family had loaded the bear her son killed on the bed of their pickup to take it the local taxidermist to get it mounted.
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