Overview
- Surveillance footage from a Markleysburg Family Dollar shows a black bear pursuing 11-year-old Cole Frazee into the store.
- The animal leapt over the front counter and roamed inside for about 10 minutes before exiting.
- Frazee and the lone cashier climbed onto the counter, then fled to a locked car and were unharmed.
- The incident occurred as Frazee and his father stopped at the store, according to local reports and the boy’s account.
- The Pennsylvania Game Commission says bears search aggressively for food in late fall, urging residents to secure attractants and keep distance.