Folk Singer Taylor Mitchell Killed by Coyotes

[David]

Originally Posted by JWS

Just as well could have been Los Angeles. We have coyotes, mountain lions..even bears in the northern mountain surburbs. Occassionally, they come down into the city...wondering through neighborhoods looking for food scraps

Every so often, we Southern Californians hear about a mountain lion attack on a bicyclist or a hiker in our foothills. Some of those attacks even prove fatal.

But this fatal coyote attack is just about unprecedented. Coyotes are all over the place in our towns & foothills, but they never threaten human beings. Occasionally, they gobble up house pets: cats & very small dogs.

Unlike wolves, coyotes are small canines. They roam in packs typically, but as another ledgie said, they are afraid of people & will almost always avoid them.

One wonders whether the killer coyotes in this story were rabid or were carrying some other disease that rendered them oddball.

The other possibility is that they just didn't like this young woman's singing.