Wildlife authorities handed out a death sentence to a 400-lbs. female grizzly bear after DNA evidence linked her to the murder of Kevin Kammer, a 48-year-old Michigan man taken while he slept at the Soda Butte Campground near Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday at 2 a.m. The grizzly was also found guilty of mauling 21-year-old Ronald Singer on the leg and Deb Freele on the arm. They too were sleeping in their tents.

Freele tells the Associated Press:

If it was something that I had done — if I had walked into a female with cubs and startled her, and she attacked me — I can understand that. She was hunting us, with the intention of killing us and eating us.

Fish, Wildlife and Parks Warden Capt. Sam Sheppard stated that the campers had done everything “right” in regards of locking away food in metal canisters. It was also noted that the grizzly displayed no signs of illness or starvation that would explain its rampage.

The grizzly’s three cubs will do time at a ZooMontana in Billings.

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