SECONDS FROM DEATH: STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHS BEAR MOMENTS BEFORE IT KILLED HIM (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Wednesday, November 26, 2014, 19:11

In this 21 September 2014 photo taken by hiker Darsh Patel and provided by the West Milford police department, a bear approaches 22-year-old Patel in New Jersey's Apshawa Preserve. Photograph: Darsh Patel/AP

A series of newly released photographs reveal the final moments of a New Jersey student’s life before he was killed by a bear.

Darsh Patel, a 22-year-old Rutgers University student, was hiking with four friends in the Apshawa Preserve in West Milford, New Jersey, in September when he was mauled to death by a 300-pound black bear.

On Tuesday, West Milford police released five photos from Patel’s phone that show the bear standing behind a log just 100ft away from the hikers, the Record reported. In each photo, the bear appears to be getting closer to the hikers. Police said the bear in the photos was the same bear that killed Patel just a short while later.

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