'Concerning incident': Coyote grabs, injures child in Portland neighborhood

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A child was recently grabbed and chased by a coyote in their Portland neighborhood yard, leading Oregon wildlife officials to warn residents of the "concerning incident."

On October 24, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife received a report of an incident involving a coyote and a child in the Alameda neighborhood.

The previous evening, around 6:15 p.m., two children – ages nine and three – were playing hide-and-seek in their yard when the coyote approached the nine-year-old and grabbed their foot, officials said.

The child was only wearing socks and was able to shake their foot out of the sock and run away, officials said. The coyote chased the child until the child’s father, who was on the front porch at the time of the incident, started yelling and the an