Kelly Keen coyote attack

On August 26, 1981, three-year-old Los Angeles resident Kelly Lynn Keen was dragged off her property and fatally wounded by an urban coyote before she could be rescued by her father.

Kelly was watching educational television programs in the living room of the family's home in the Chevy Chase Canyon neighborhood[1] of Glendale, California, but she let herself out the front door and stepped into the driveway, where she encountered an urban coyote.

Her father, Robert, quickly came running, chased the coyote off, and rushed Kelly to the Glendale Adventist Medical Center, where she was in surgery for four hours before she died.

[2] In 2004, former child actress and animal rights activist Pamelyn Ferdin attended a Glendale City Council meeting to oppose a proposal to cull urban coyotes.

Kelly's parents, Robert and Cathy Keen, watched the meeting live on cable and, upon hearing Bell's statement, raced to the Glendale City hall to respond to the allegations.