A 5-year-old girl was hospitalized Sunday with serious injuries in Grand Junction after a bear attack outside her home in East Orchard Mesa above the Colorado River, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said.

CPW officers killed the bear overnight, spokesman Mike Parros said in a news release on Monday.

A spokeswoman for St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, Teri Cavanagh, said Monday that doctors expected the girl to “mend very well.”

Pediatric surgeon Charles Breaux Jr. said the bear apparently bit the girl on her back side, but she didn’t suffer fractures or brain or organ injuries, according to The Associated Press. She received dozens of internal and external stitches, Breaux said.

Neither the hospital nor CPW released or confirmed the names of the girl or family.

The girl’s mother told CPW officers she heard screaming about 2:30 a.m., Sunday, and when she went outside, she saw a black bear dragging her daughter. She said the bear dropped the girl after she began screaming at the animal, CPW said. The girl had gone outside to investigate noises related to her dog, her mother said.

CPW officers tracked the bear with the aid of federal wildlife services personnel and on Sunday advised residents that they would see officers and hounds in the area. CPW set three traps in the area and said they saw the bear walking to a residence a half-mile away from the scene of the attack and killed it before it entered a trap.

Wildlife officers are confident the dead bear is the same bear involved in the attack.

“The necropsy, along with DNA results will provide the confirmation, but we are confident we have the right bear,” said Area Wildlife Manager Kirk Oldham. “However, we will leave all three traps in place for the time being out of an abundance of caution.”

CPW will transport the carcass to the agency’s Wildlife Health Laboratory in Fort Collins for a necropsy, Parros said.

CPW officers and USDA Wildlife Services personnel will continue searching the area for additional bears, he added.