A family was recently attacked by an aggressive coyote while going for a walk in Exeter. After the coyote grabbed and pulled his youngest of three children to the ground, Ian O’Reilly fought the coyote with his bare hands. He eventually strangled the animal to death.
The same coyote is also believed to have attacked other people before going after the O’Reilly family.
From NBC Boston:
“Coyote came behind us and grabbed our youngest child and grabbed him to the ground,” he said. “My wife was able to disengage the two.”
But the coyote wouldn’t back down.
“It was very aggressive. I did try to kick it and shoo it away multiple times,” O’Reilly recalled.
Thankfully O’Reilly’s two-year-old son wasn’t bitten.
O’Reilly eventually wrestled the coyote to the ground and strangled it to death.
“I was able to kick it in the jaw,” he said. “It went down. I just gripped its snout, kept it in the snow and then was eventually able to put my hand over its nose and in the process just gripped its windpipe and sat there for a long time. Five minutes later I thought it was over with but it wasn’t. Then I straddled it and scissor locked it, then continued to just hold it down.”