FILE: A coyote peers around bushes in Southern California on Oct. 14, 2025.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has captured and killed a coyote responsible for two separate attacks on young children in Los Angeles. 

On the morning of Tuesday, March 31, the state wildlife agency responded to a report in Carson, a standalone city in Los Angeles County, where a coyote bit a 4-year-old child in front of his home. With DNA testing, they learned that the same coyote had attacked another young child in the city on Feb. 11.

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“We have now confirmed that we did capture and then humanely euthanize, following DNA testing, the coyote responsible for both of those attacks,” Cort Klopping, a........

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