Trendy LA neighborhood’s war over wild coyote erupts after child attacked

‘Door-camera videos show footage of residents screaming when the coyote approached and the animal chasing a cat up a tree.’ Photograph: Natural History Library/Alamy

One Los Angeles neighborhood has been at war over a wild coyote, and over the weekend it all came to a head.

For months, the animal had been roaming the trendy Atwater Village, showing up in broad daylight, sleeping in back yards and approaching residents. At least one person had reportedly fed the coyote and others affectionately nicknamed it Wiley. But some residents feared the creature had become dangerously too cozy.