The Austin Police Department posted on it's Twitter account at 2:40am this morning that it has located a dead Cobra snake near the 13,300 block of North IH-35.
ABC affiliate KVUE-TV reports the snake is the missing monocled cobra that belonged to Grant Thompson. He died Tuesday night after being found unresponsive in the parking lot of a home improvement store in Austin with a puncture wound to his wrist.
Animal control officers then found a nonvenomous snake in a crate, six tarantulas and a bullfrog inside Thomspon's car, but his highly aggressive and venomous monocled cobra was missing.
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Officers say they found the cobra this morning not far from where it disappeared. They did not say how it died.
Thompson worked at a pet shop in his hometown of Temple and the Temple Daily Telegram has reported he would show exotic animals to children.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.