Coyote attacked 2-year-old girl in front of her house, security camera shows - CNN

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A 2-year-old miss is recovering aft being attacked by a coyote Friday day successful beforehand of her location successful a Los Angeles neighborhood, her begetter told CNN.

Ariel Eliyahuo told CNN that his daughter, Ariya, had to person aggregate rabies shots aft the attack, which happened astatine astir 3:45 p.m. aft he’d brought his children location from daycare.

Video from a Ring information camera shows the coyote tally up to drawback Ariya and commencement dragging her successful the seconds earlier her begetter could react.

“I heard Ariya scream. I thought she fell down,” Eliyahuo told CNN. “I ran instantly to spot what was going connected and I saw the coyote onslaught her. I picked her up successful my arms and tried to marque the coyote spell away.”

You tin perceive different radical screaming disconnected camera.

Once his girl was successful his arms, Eliyahuo tried to shoo the coyote distant and past threw a h2o vessel astatine it arsenic it ran. He took his girl wrong and picked up a committee and walked aft the coyote.

Eliyahuo said his woman saw humor connected their daughter’s pants, truthful they rushed her to the hospital, wherever she got aggregate rabies shots. He said his girl is doing better, but some of his children were frightened by the experience.

They unrecorded successful Woodland Hills, which is simply a built-up neighborhood, truthful helium wouldn’t person expected this to hap there, helium said.

“We don’t unrecorded successful a zoo, we unrecorded successful Los Angeles,” Eliyahuo said. “Now I’m really, really, truly acrophobic to fto the kids spell out, adjacent successful the backmost yard, by themselves.”

Wildlife officials with dart rifles are moving to effort to drawback the coyote, Capt. Patrick Foy, a nationalist accusation serviceman with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, told CNN.

There were a mates of coyote sightings successful the country Saturday night, but they were incapable to drawback them, Foy said.

Authorities person taken samples from the girl’s covering and are hoping to cod DNA they tin usage to place the carnal erstwhile they drawback it. The coyote volition beryllium euthanized truthful they tin trial it for rabies, Foy said.

It is antithetic for coyotes to roam successful specified built-up areas, but it does happen, helium said.

Earlier this year, a coyote attacked a 2-year-old miss successful adjacent Orange County, according to constabulary there.