A young boy received 20 stitches to the back of his head, back and legs after a coyote attacked him in a playground in Carson earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Enoch Palomar, 6, was rushed to the emergency room on Monday after a coyote bit the boy repeatedly from behind. Palomar and his family were watching his sister\u2019s softball game at Del Amo Park when the attack happened.<\/p>\n
A parent at the softball game was recording the match when they inadvertently filmed a portion of the attack. In the video, Palomar can be heard screaming frantically as the coyote tugs on him from behind. Another video showed a coyote roaming around a nearby field.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was trying to kick it to leave and I was trying to scream at it to get scared and run away and when I screamed at it, it didn\u2019t really work,\u201d the child said.<\/p>\n
The boy added that when he initially saw the coyote, he thought it was a dog. As it began to run toward him, he quickly realized it was a wild animal.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstinct is to protect, you know? So I heard him screaming, I saw him getting attacked by the coyote and I ran towards him right away,\u201d Enoch\u2019s mother, Melissa Palomar, said. \u201cAs soon as I got close to the coyote, it ran off and I was able to get him and take him to the emergency room.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to the stitches Enoch received, he was also given several rabies shots as a precaution. Overall, he\u2019s recovering well, according to his mother.<\/p>\n
Wildlife officials said they\u2019re processing the boy\u2019s clothes for DNA testing to try to locate the coyote that bit him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young boy received 20 stitches to the back of his head, back and legs after a coyote…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[14430,1582,276,46018,2961,224,5337,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-132500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-animals-and-wildlife","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-carson","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}