4-year-old boy attacked by coyote while standing in grandparents' California driveway: VIDEO

CARSON, Calif. -- A 4-year-old lad was attacked by a coyote portion lasting successful his grandmother's Southern California driveway - and it was each caught connected video.

The onslaught happened Tuesday portion the kid was adjacent his mother's car astatine his grandparents' home. Surveillance footage captured the incident, showing the lad being grabbed and pulled to the crushed by the coyote arsenic his parent unloaded supplies from the vehicle.

"All of a sudden, I conscionable perceive him screaming and I turned astir and I screamed arsenic good due to the fact that I spot the coyote connected the apical of him," said Sarina Donohoo, the boy's mother.

Donohoo said she grabbed her lad and ran into the house, and the coyote ran off.

"I was truthful frightened due to the fact that I cognize however atrocious it could person been," she said. "My archetypal effect was conscionable I request to get him distant and I request to spot if he's okay."

The child, Solomon, who turned 4 successful February, was not earnestly injured. He was treated for superficial puncture wounds connected 1 of his legs and connected his torso.

The boy's grandparents unrecorded adjacent a schoolhouse and accidental coyotes are often seen successful the neighborhood.

"It hurts my bosom that thing has been done. That determination are not protections successful place," said Stephanie Fields, Solomon's grandmother.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is trying to find the coyote progressive successful the incident.

A akin onslaught happened successful Carson past year, erstwhile a 6-year-old lad was bitten by a coyote and hospitalized with injuries to his caput and legs.

Donohoo said much needs to beryllium done to support residents.

"We've lived with my parents successful the past. [The coyotes] been astir for years and erstwhile we telephone for help, they're saying they can't bash anything. I don't recognize wherefore it takes thing similar this to happen, and convey God helium wasn't injured more," she said.