New questions after coyote bites toddler

New tonight, a coyote bit a toddler in Atwater Village last month. Wildlife officials said that they had put that animal down. Now they're walking that back after a coyote turned up limping to the same neighborhood. Fox 11's Christy Cajardo joining us live with what officials are saying now. Christy? Yeah, Christine, this is raising a lot of questions because as you said back on October 16th, the Department of Fish and Wildlife told us that they had tracked and also euthanized the animal. Now it appears that the animal was shot but survived and it took neighbors and a woman who rescues wildlife to figure it out. How this played out was not acceptable. Wildlife specialist Rebecca Dimitri thought she was in Atwater Village to track an injured coyote. Hi, buddy. But what she uncovered surprised her and neighbors. The limping animal was Wiley, the same coyote she says bit a toddler and who California Department of Fish and Wildlife told us they had euthanized last month. Saying we killed an animal when they actually didn't, that's just, that's just. It's really bad. I mean, they lied. Dimitri, who's with the group Wildlife Emergency Services, says on the 8th she notified Fish and Wildlife Wiley was still alive. But she says she got no response. You got a slow foot. Last month, the state agency also told Fox 11 that not only had they put down the coyote, but DNA tests confirmed the animal was the one who bit the toddler. The agency now tells the LA Times, officers thought the animal had succumbed to its gunshot injuries, but never found a carcass. Adding, officers went back out on Tuesday, found the animal, and euthanized it out of concern for public safety. I feel sorry for the animal. You know, it should be down because look at what happened. Coyotes have been a problem in the neighborhood for months. But neighbors say Wiley was so familiar, they nicknamed her. They believe she was drawn to a house on Glenhurst where they say a man was feeding her. Fish and Wildlife announced last month he could face charges. But some in this neighborhood also believe officials have some explaining to do. We reached out to Fish and Wildlife, but being Veterans Day, we did not hear back. But neighbors around here tell us they had been complaining not only to that department, but also to animal control for months. And they feel that Wiley could have been trapped and moved long before the child was bit and the animal needed to be put down. Live in Atwater Village, I'm Christy Cajardo. Let's send it back to you. Christy, a lot to that story there, but I can't help but be moved by the photos that you had there of the coyote on the lawn furniture. Yes, and they said that the animal was a fixture, that they had been seeing her, at least that's what Rebecca Dimitri tells us, it was a female, all over the neighborhood, that it was jumping fences, it was going in backyards, sleeping on cars. It was very, very familiar with people, not afraid of people, and they said that was a problem. That's what happens if you feed them. All right. Christy Fajardo, thank you.