This story, originally published on March 28 at 5:43 p.m., was updated at 7:20 p.m. to add that the coyote was found and killed.
The coyote that reportedly attacked two women in Ashton and Burtonsville on Thursday was found and killed, Montgomery County police said at 7:10 p.m. on X.
Police said the animal was located along a trail near Dustin Road in Burtonsville and it was shot. It will be tested for rabies, according to police.
The county’s animal services department and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources assisted in the search of the coyote.
At 9:44 a.m., a woman reported that she was walking her dog in the 1400 block of Patuxent Drive near the Watershed Park in Ashton when she was attacked by a coyote, according to police. She was transported to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the police statement said.
Around 3:44 p.m., another woman reported that she was attacked by a coyote in the 3600 block of Bell Road in Burtonsville, which is more than an 11-mile walk from the first location, police said. She fought off the coyote and stabbed it, according to the statement.