A zebra that had been tranquilized and captured Wednesday evening later died. A second loose zebra was returned to its owners but escaped its pen and was found dead Thursday afternoon.

Wednesday afternoon in the Central Texas city, a zebra swam across the Guadalupe River and got loose, police said.

Police tweeted a short video of the zebra running down North Grape Avenue just before 6 p.m. Wednesday and wrote that officers were assisting animal control in pursuit of the animal.

NBPD is currently assisting Animal Control in corralling a zebra that somehow got loose this afternoon and has been making its way across the city. The zebra is currently in the area of N. Grape Ave. pic.twitter.com/dWnizDje3b — New Braunfels Police (@NBPDTX) August 7, 2019

At 7:44 p.m., New Braunfels police tweeted the zebra, "was safely tranquilized and carefully recovered" but later learned it had died.

In a later tweet on the matter, police added they were still on the lookout for a second escaped zebra.

According to KXAN in Austin, that zebra was returned to its owners. It escaped again and then later was found deceased still on the owners' property but outside of its pen.