CARSON, Calif. -- A 6-year-old boy is recovering after he was brutally attacked by a coyote at a park during his sister's softball game near Los Angeles.

The incident happened Monday morning at Del Amo Park in Carson, California.

Enoch Palomar was there with his family when the animal suddenly attacked him.

"I wasn't thinking of anything, I was just yelling," recalled the boy.

The boy's mother, Melissa Palomar, said the second she heard her son screaming, she jumped in action.

"He yelled immediately as soon as the coyote bit him," she said. "I ran towards him, and then I noticed it was a coyote, and I started making noise, and as soon as I got close to him, he ran off."

The coyote bit the back of the boy's head and both of his legs, requiring the child to have 20 stitches. Enoch als

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