Both victims are getting a series of rabies shots and warning shoppers in the area to be very aware that coyotes are out and about even in busy parking lots.
She isn’t the only one who's been attacked by a coyote in this busy commercial area in Swampscott.
"I thought it was a horsefly or some kind bug at first," said John Malafronte."I turned my head and I wasn’t expecting a coyote that’s for sure." A couple of weeks ago, Malafronte had just pulled over to have a cigarette in the shopping plaza across the street from Bertucci’s when a coyote came right up to him.Malafronte was bitten in the leg. He used a pole in his truck to shoo the coyote away.
"As he walked away he looked at me like yeah I got you," said Malafronte."I called the police, paramedics came." Coyotes are often seen living in suburban or urban areas but are generally afraid of people, according to the
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