A 6-year-old Southern California boy was dragged and attacked by a coyote at a softball game earlier this week, but is expected to make a full recovery.
Enoch Palomar was attending his sister’s game at Del Amo Park in Carson when the attack unfolded, KTLA reported.
A person filming the action on the field captured audio of Enoch’s screams as the wild animal was biting him behind the softball field.
The young boy said the coyote initially chased after him, and bit him as he tried to escape.
“It just kept biting me and I was trying to kick it,” Enoch told KTLA. “It was too fast and it just jumped. I was trying my hardest and then it didn’t work, and then I yelled.”
Enoch’s mom, Melissa Palomar, heard his screams and sprinted over to help him.
“I was like, ‘Get up, get up!’” said Melissa Palomar. “I was just hysterical.”
People scared the coyote off, and the animal was last seen running off into the night.
In recent years, California’s coyotes have been wandering into urban areas, where they’re known to go after small dogs.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates the state has a coyote population somewhere between 250,000 and 750,000.
