Trappers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture shot and killed the coyote that bit a 5-year-old girl in the buttock last week at the San Francisco Botanical Garden.

As the girl played with other children at the garden Friday around 11 a.m., she tripped and fell, according to California Department of Fish and Wildlife Captain Patrick Foy. A coyote then scurried over to her and bit her in the buttock. Nearby park officials tried to scare away the coyote, which he said was attempting to get closer to the children, Foy added.

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Cameron Fozi is a data journalism intern at Bay City News through the Dow Jones News Fund. He is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, where he reported and edited for the city and campus newspaper, the Daily Californian. In summer 2023, he interned for his hometown newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune.