WEST MILFORD — The hiker whose friend was mauled to death by a black bear on Sunday in the woods of West Milford called authorities confused about where he was and afraid of what may have happened to his friends, according to 911 recordings obtained by NJ Advance Media.

The caller gave the dispatcher the wrong address and said he and four friends from Edison saw an aggressive black bear. He and his friends all bolted in separate directions, and now he couldn’t find several of his friends.

“I’m scared out of my mind for them,” the unidentified caller said. “I wanna go back but I’m hurt and I don’t know what to do.”

In the 911 recording, the man initially told dispatcher Sally Somers that he had emerged from the woods of the Apshawa Preserve in West Milford with one of the other hikers. He suffered minor scrapes and was waiting for police outside of a house at 81 Macopin Road.

The dispatcher inquired about his health and eventually transferred him to the dispatch center in Bloomingdale.

Some time later, he called the West Milford dispatcher back.

“I just got told to call you because I’m not in Bloomingdale,” the caller said in the second 911 call with Somers. “I need someone immediately to 581 Macopin Road.”

When that call hit the radio tower is not entirely clear. Only one call, at 3:42 p.m., was logged in the dispatch report.

More than two hours after one of the 911 calls was logged, members of a volunteer search and rescue unit scraping the preserve found the body of 22 year old Rutgers senior Darsh Patel. He had sustained multiple bites and claw wounds, according to the documents.

The rescue unit told police that the bear had been circling Patel's body and was behaving aggressively toward them, according to police incident reports.

They stood toe-to-toe with the bear for nearly 30 minutes, attempting to scare it by creating loud noises. At 6:18 p.m. a West Milford police officer pumped two shotgun blasts into the bear, killing the 299-pound male just yards from where the body of the Rutgers University student was found.

Dispatch call logs, police incident reports and 911 tapes from the West Milford police investigation were released to NJ Advance Media on Thursday in response to an Open Public Records Act request.

But the heavily redacted reports shed little light on the events leading up to the fatal mauling of 22-year-old Edison resident Darsh Patel in the 572-acre Apshawa Nature Preserve on Sunday.

Reports released on Thursday do not include any witness statements from Patel's four friends, who all escaped without serious injury. Nor do the reports detail the encounter between authorities and the bear after Patel's body was discovered. The documents do not specify where the fatal confrontation took place or speak to when Patel was last seen alive.

Police are still actively seeking two hikers that the Edison party met on the trail shortly before they spotted came upon the bear.

West Milford’s clerk, Antoinette Battaglia, said that large sections of the reports were redacted because the investigation remains ongoing. Police Chief Timothy Storbeck could not be reached for comment.

The medical examiner’s office has not yet publicly released the cause of death for Patel. His death was classified as accidental and non-criminal by West Milford police.

Patel's death marks the first fatal bear attack in New Jersey in at least 150 years.

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