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A coyote that bit a 16-month-old child in Los Angeles last month survived being shot by state wildlife officers and roamed the same neighborhood for weeks before being tracked down and euthanized on Tuesday morning.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that officers from the agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture located and killed the animal early on November 10 in Atwater Village, a community northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
“Following subsequent reports of a coyote still alive in the Atwater Village area, CDFW Law Enforcement and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) conducted additional efforts to locate the animal,” the statement read. “During the early morning hours of November 10, 2026, the coyote was located and humanely euthanized due to the continued public safety threat it posed.”
The toddler bitten by the coyote on October 16 was treated at a hospital and released, as reported by NBC4 Los Angeles. Later that day, wildlife officers tracked the animal near the 3300 block of Glenhurst Avenue, shot it and announced that it had died after DNA samples confirmed it was the same coyote involved in the attack.
