A 6-year-old boy is recovering Friday from wounds to his head, back and legs that he suffered in a coyote attack, which was recorded on video, while attending his sister’s softball game in Carson.

The boy’s mother told reporters a tragedy was narrowly averted on Monday evening in Del Amo Park.

“I was just hysterical,” Enoch Palomar’s mother Melissa told KTLA.

The downed boy’s screams as the coyote bit him drew the attention of the child’s mother as well as someone who recorded the attack from a distance.

“It just kept biting me and I was trying to kick it,” Enoch Palomar said. “It was too fast and it just jumped. I was trying my hardest and then it didn’t work, and then I yelled.”

The coyote ran off when people came to rescue the boy, who needed 20 stitches to close his wounds and rab

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