Police in Aberdeen are alerting residents to a cougar after it was seen on a surveillance camera Monday morning trying to kill a cat and a deer.
The footage comes two days after a cougar attacked a child in Leavenworth, which is roughly 230 miles away in Eastern Washington. Follow this link to see details about the child attacked by a cougar in Leavenworth. The cougar in that case was found and killed.
In the Aberdeen case, the cougar was spotted about 12:40 a.m. in the 100 block of South Chehalist Street.
"Aberdeen officers observed an adult cougar attempt to kill a cat," a department spokesperson wrote on Facebook. "The cat escaped and a short time later the cougar attempted to take down a deer (see video). The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife was notified. This is a heads up for people that reside in that area."
The earlier video about the child attacked by the other cougar in Eastern Washington is embedded at the bottom of this page, after the new video.