A female grizzly bear that had fatally mauled a hiker two months ago in Montana and attacked another person in Idaho was shot dead after breaking into a home recently near Yellowstone National Park, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks said Wednesday.

The homeowner reported the 10-year-old mother bear and her cub breaking in through a window early Saturday morning. The home was located in West Yellowstone, close to the entrance of the park.

FWP officials determined that the bear had been conditioned to seek human food and posed a public safety risk.

Later that day, FWP staff and local law enforcement captured the male cub and shot the mother bear dead, close to where the cub was captured. Grizzly bears in the lower 48 states are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, so the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service had to authorize permission for the female bear to be shot, FWP said in a statement.

Posthumous genetic analysis revealed the mother bear’s checkered history with humans; it had first been temporarily captured in 2017 for unspecified research purposes, wildlife said.

In July, the female grizzly fatally mauled hiker Amie Adamson, 48, of Derby, Kansas, on a trail near West Yellowstone, according to The New York Times.

The female bear also injured a person near Henrys Lake State Park in Idaho in 2020.

Officials had determined both attacks to be defensive maneuvers by the bear, but they had also tried unsuccessfully to trap and remove the mother grizzly after the July killing.

The bear cub, currently being held at an FWP rehabilitation center in Helena, Montana, will eventually be transferred to a zoo.

• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.