ALIQUIPPA — A police officer says he was saved from a coyote attack when a fellow officer shot the animal. Aliquippa Sgt. Douglas Edgell said he stopped a speeder just before 10 p.m. Friday and was standing outside his cruiser when the animal started running toward him on Route 51.

Two other officers pulled up and one of them, officer John Lane, shot the animal before it could reach Edgell.

The animal ran away and the officers could not find it afterward.