A little boy in Carson had a scary encounter with Mother Nature this week when he was attacked by a coyote at a softball game, leaving him with bites and scratches that required stitches.
Enoch Palomar, 6, was at Del Amo park to watch his sister play in a softball tournament on Monday when the coyote attacked him.
“It just kept biting me and I was trying to kick it,” Enoch told news station KTLA-TV. “It was too fast and it just jumped. I was trying my hardest and then it didn’t work, and then I yelled.”
The attack unfolded in the background of a video being shot by a parent of the softball game. Video of the incident shows Enoch in the distance near a playground, screaming in panic and struggling to get up as the coyote scratched and bit him.
His mother, Melissa Palomar, ran to her s