Ed Mills was standing on his deck in Malabar, Florida, on Wednesday evening when he heard screaming and gunshots. Minutes later, he heard ambulance sirens.
(Credit: Don Zaidle – Texas Fish & Game)
“It was scary,” Mills said. “My thought was it was either domestic or somebody had shot a dog in their yard or a raccoon.”
Turns out , a 54-year-old woman who lived nearby on Hall Road had been attacked by a coyote and was transported to Palm Bay Hospital. A family member shot the animal dead.
Brevard County Sheriff’s Deputies received a call at about 2:50 p.m. that a resident had spotted a coyote in the 2000 block of Duncil Lane, but the resident said the wild animal disappeared into an area of forest, according to Maj. Vic Desantis.
