LOS ANGELES (KCAL/KCBS/CNN) – Traps have been set up at a college campus in Los Angeles to catch a coyote after the wild animal bit a 5-year-old boy.
Campus police at Cal State Los Angeles shot the coyote around 8:15 p.m. Wednesday when a female student had a face-off with the aggressive creature.
Police say the coyote was hit, but it ran away.
Less than two hours earlier, a 5-year-old boy was walking on a campus soccer field with his family when the coyote bit him on the leg.
The boy was taken to a hospital by his family and is expected to be OK.
Earlier that day, junior Aldrich Carles took a cell phone video from inside his car, showing a coyote stalking a different family. In the video, the wild animal gets closer and closer to a little boy in a blue raincoat.
Carles says he doesn’t know if this was the same coyote that bit the 5-year-old.
"The kids started to scream. There was a little girl, little boy. Dad grabbed them by the coats… It looked like they were trying to run away,” Carles said.
Carles stopped recording when he realized the family was in danger.
The college student says he had just run into the animal himself.
"It didn't seem aggressive. It looked like it was lost. It goes up the ramp. I immediately grabbed my phone, caught the video on tape,” Carles said.
School maintenance worker Miguel Taico says he saw a coyote Thursday morning but doesn’t think it was the one that bit the boy.
"In the morning, they usually come down a little bit after 5, off the slope, and they’re looking for food,” Taico said. "Same one we usually see, full of mange."
The college says they don’t know of any prior coyote attacks but are warning students and the public to be vigilant.
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