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Horrifying video shows coyote attack 1-year-old boy in Arizona driveway

Horrifying video shows coyote attack 1-year-old boy in Arizona driveway
Like inside that coyote must have watched us get out of the car and kind of waited for the right time to kind of go after my son. Oh my God, are you ok. 5:30 Wednesday afternoon, Kelly Perros, he's son attacked unprovoked in *** matter of seconds. It's adrenaline. It's you just feel, you know, fight or flight kind of kicks in. And this incident is the second confirmed coyote attack in the last seven days, both near Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard time. I remember my five year old daughter yelling out coyote coyote on Saturday afternoon. The Miao family was playing in Aztec Park when *** coyote attacked Kurt Mia's one year old son on the playground happened so fast. Both Children are ok, but the parents are concerned after two attacks involving one coyote in the same two mile area to show this kind of behavior is very unusual. That's Darren Julian with Arizona game and fish. And he says these are the 23rd and 24th human coyote attacks since 1997. Last one we had prior to this, this issue was 2017 and Julian says it's likely one coyote responsible for both attacks and they have been looking for it since Sunday afternoon, but catching the animal is proving difficult. You know, there's desert washes that cut through these areas. Uh, it's heavy foliage, you know, very, you know, dense cover. In the meantime, parents want this animal caught to make sure another child doesn't get hurt. I would like, you know, my kids to be safe in *** coyote not to be prowling my property.
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Horrifying video shows coyote attack 1-year-old boy in Arizona driveway
A disturbing Ring video shows a coyote stalking and attacking a small child in Arizona.According to 12 News, Scottsdale resident Kelly Pirozzi had just arrived home with her three children and was ushering them inside when the animal pounced on her 21-month-old son. “That coyote must have watched us get out of the car and kind of waited for the right time to go after our son,“ Pirozzi said.She ran to her child and scared the coyote away."It makes you more cautious now, going outside your front door, looking around, doing things you didn’t do yesterday, scanning the area," Pirozzi said.Darren Julian, an urban wildlife specialist with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, said the coyote in the video is likely the same one that attacked another child days earlier.In that case, a child was attacked while on the playground at Aztec Park.“To show this kind of behavior is very unusual,” said Julian. "A normal coyote, when they hear us, see us, smell us, they are hiding away or running away."Officials continue to search for the coyote.See the scary moment in the player above.

A disturbing Ring video shows a coyote stalking and attacking a small child in Arizona.

According to , Scottsdale resident Kelly Pirozzi had just arrived home with her three children and was ushering them inside when the animal pounced on her 21-month-old son.

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“That coyote must have watched us get out of the car and kind of waited for the right time to go after our son,“ Pirozzi said.

She ran to her child and scared the coyote away.

"It makes you more cautious now, going outside your front door, looking around, doing things you didn’t do yesterday, scanning the area," Pirozzi said.

Darren Julian, an urban wildlife specialist with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, said the coyote in the video is likely the same one that attacked another child days earlier.

In that case, a child was attacked while on the playground at Aztec Park.

“To show this kind of behavior is very unusual,” said Julian. "A normal coyote, when they hear us, see us, smell us, they are hiding away or running away."

Officials continue to search for the coyote.

See the scary moment in the player above.