Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers are investigating the illegal killing of a female mountain lion near the group campsites at Gunnison City Mountain Park in Taylor Canyon north of Gunnison.

CPW responded to the area on Friday to find the lion shot through the chest and then brought its body to some bushes, the agency said. Now they're seeking information from anyone who may have seen or heard something in that area.

"We are looking for leads or information anyone might have that could assist us with this investigation," CPW District Wildlife Manager Codi Prior said in a statement on Sunday. "Somebody killed this lion and then dumped its carcass in the place where it was discovered."

The mountain lion had previously been part of CPW's mountain lion density study in the Gunnison Ba

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