**UPDATE 5:03 a.m.**
The College Park bear is still on the loose but no one knows exactly where it is. An FWC contractor shot the young bear with a paintball gun to scare it out of a tree on Country Club Drive Tuesday afternoon. It was last spotted Tuesday night on Edgewater Drive.
Residents have been looking up in the trees to check out their new furry neighbor.
"I was actually in the laundry room doing, folding laundry and I looked out the window and I saw a shadow, and I thought, 'That is a very large dog,'" resident Arden Magee said.
FWC says they don't want to tranquilize the bear because of safety risks to it and people. Residents are still being urged to stay indoors and if they come across the bear, do not approach it.
**UPDATE 10:32 a.m.**
The College Park bear has been spotted in a tree. Watch Channel 9's live stream HERE.
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The Orlando Police Department is warning residents of College Park to keep their pets indoors after a bear was spotted roaming the neighborhood Tuesday morning.
A tweet sent out by the department says the small, juvenile bear was seen in the "1000 blocks of Bryn Mawr and Smith and 900 blk of New Hampshire."
Witnesses tells Channel 9 Eyewitness News that the bear might be hiding out.
"We didn't see it cruising down in the middle of the street.....We looked in the trees too."
Orlando police warns that if you encounter the bear, do not approach it.
Florida Fish and Wildlife has been notified.
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