One man is dead and another is injured after they were attacked by a cougar Saturday while mountain biking in Washington State, police said.

King County Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Ryan Abbott said the pair, whose identities haven't been released, were attacked while they were going for a mountain bike ride in North Bend,  east of Seattle.

It is not clear if the victims were biking together or separately.

Police said that one victim, in his late 40s, was transported to a hospital with unspecified injuries. The second victim was found dead and, according to Abbott, had not been removed from the scene.

The cougar had been standing over the body of the victim when authorities arrived, KIRO reported.

The Washington Department of Fish and Game is tracking the animal, which reportedly ran into the woods following the attack.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A missing Navy sailor was found dead Saturday, about a week after he vanished on a hike in Washington state, authorities said.

The remains of Jeremiah Adams, 24, who was stationed on USS Nimitz, was located by a group of hikers on the Gray Wolf Trail in Sequim, Q13FOX reported. Authorities said the body was found at the bottom of a ravine.

Adams was reported missing after he left for a day hike on May 4, at Olympic National Forest. His friends got worried when the sailor didn’t show up for another hike the next day.

Adams’ car was located by fellow sailors two days later near the hiking trail. Rescuers searched the area for days looking for Adams.

His family believes Adams fell during the hike.

An autopsy will determine the official cause of death. Authorities do not suspect foul play.

A pit bull was euthanized after it attacked and injured Jehovah’s Witnesses in Washington state on Tuesday, police said.

The incident occured in Arlington, Washington, KIRO-7 reported. The dog allegedly attacked a 70-year-old female missionary as she stepped out of a car and injured three others as they attempted to assist the woman.

Two people inside the home where the missionaries had parked also stepped in to help, the news station reported.

Four victims were taken to a nearby hospital, including the woman who was first attacked. The extent of her injuries is unclear.

“I just heard the screaming,” one neighbor recalled to KIRO-7. “I just thought it was kids. It sounded like a little girl screaming,” the neighbor added.

The pit bull likely escaped through a fence and was “protecting its territory,” Kristen Banfield, an administrator for the city of Arlington, told the news station.

Per the owner's request, the dog was euthanized just hours after the attack.

“He was genuinely concerned; he wanted to make sure the safety of his family and the public was protected,” she said.

A controversial proposal before Seattle's City Council to impose a head tax on businesses to pay the city's exploding homeless population may not be enough to solve the problem, according to the city's leader.

In her first comments on the proposed tax, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan told Q13 FOX the city needs more resources, but she has major concerns with the current proposal.

"We cannot tax our way out of this problem, we won’t have a big enough population to do it,” she said.

The proposal would raise $75 million from more than 500 companies by imposing a head tax of 26 cents on every hour employees worked in the city. It will hit companies that have gross revenues topping $20 million a year, but the biggest impact would be felt by Amazon. With a $540 tax on each of its 40,000 Seattle employees, the online retailer will pay $21.6 million by way of the head tax.

The company has halted construction of a new building as it awaits the City Council’s vote on the employee tax, which goes before a committee on Friday. If the proposal passes the committee with 5 out of 9 votes, it will go before a full council vote on Monday.

“Right now the reality is if Amazon's building stays paused, we could lose hundreds of jobs just with carpenters and almost $90 million in salaries…” Durkan said Wednesday. “We don’t want to be a city where working people can’t have jobs.”

When asked if she would veto the measure if it passes the council, the mayor said she was working with people "in good faith" to work toward a solution

“I know you want a Twitter response – yes or no – digital response, the president operates that way, I don’t," she said. "I am working with people in good faith, in council chambers and across the spectrum to see if we can find a way forward together."

BUSINESSES IN SEATTLE COULD PAY MILLIONS TO HELP CITY DEAL WITH HOMELESS PROBLEM

A public hearing before the council on Wednesday drew a crowd so large that many could not get in, with those on both sides of the proposed tax giving passionate statements to members.

Seferina Hernandez, who is homeless, told the council that the only way for her to get her children and her life back is to pass the head tax to build more affordable housing.

Seattle City Council member Teresa Mosqueda told Fox News in a previous interview the proposal would create almost 2,000 "deeply affordable" homes.

“Being separate and displaced from our children has been traumatic for all of us,” Hernandez said.

Those opposed to the tax said they care about helping to solve the city's homeless crisis, but placing a large tax on businesses is not the answer.

“We will lose about 1.8 million unique construction hours, of which 360,000 would be worked by apprentices,” a construction worker said.

Several of those also addressed the biggest supporter of the head tax, socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, with one woman who said she previously voted for her calling her a "fraud."

TENSIONS MOUNT AS SEATTLE DEBATES BUSINESS TAX FOR HOMELESS

“This legislation does zero for fixing a thoroughly broken system. Kshama, I’m a small business owner in your district, I’ve been homeless and I voted for you,” Sara Brereton told the council member.

Another council member said there are more negotiations underway before the scheduled vote before the full council. Despite spending in Seattle and King County that has ballooned to $200 million a year, the number of people living in tents, on Seattle streets and in vehicles has grown 20 percent since 2016, to nearly 4,000 individuals

“I also don’t think we’ve convinced the public that we are spending the money wisely, as far as homelessness,” Council Man Bruce Harrell told Q13 FOX.

Seattle used to have a $25 a year per head tax, but scrapped it in 2009 because leaders at the time said it sent the wrong message to businesses during the recession.

Fox News' Dan Springer in Seattle contributed to this report.