An 11-year-old boy killed a bear at point-blank range last Wednesday night in Teton Valley, Idaho after the bear would not leave his family’s front porch.

The boy was at home with his younger sisters when they spotted the black bear on the porch. The boy could not get the bear to leave so he shot the bear.

The family reported the incident on Thursday morning.

Fish and Game Conservation Officer Doug Peterson said the black bear had been a problem in the area near the county transfer station, and the family is not in any trouble.

“The bear had been hanging around and we got multiple complaint calls,” Game Officer Lauren Wendt, who helped set a trap for the bear last week, said.

The bear had been getting into garbage cans and bird feeders in the area, and officials said they would have put the bear down anyway if it had been trapped.

Peterson issued a permit for the family to keep the bear.

Just two weeks earlier, another bear had been trapped and euthanized for breaking into a home.

“We don’t like to see them down this low,” Peterson said of the nuisance bears. “But it’s not uncommon.”