Six-year-old boy hospitalized after coyote attack at softball game: ‘I wasn’t thinking of anything, I was just yelling’

A California family is recovering after a wildlife encounter left a young boy in the hospital.

What happened?

Six-year-old Enoch Palomar was playing at Del Amo Park in Carson, California, on Monday morning when a coyote lunged at him without warning, biting his head and legs.

“I wasn’t thinking of anything, I was just yelling,” the boy told ABC7. His mother, Melissa, rushed to his side, shouting until the animal ran off.

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