A “repeat offender” coyote has been captured and euthanized after being caught on camera biting and attempting to drag away a 4-year-old boy standing in his grandparents’ driveway in Southern California earlier this week.

Four-year-old Solomon suffered seven puncture wounds on his legs and torso after the coyote bit and attempted to drag the young boy away in heart-stopping video caught on surveillance camera.

“I just hear him screaming, and I turn around, and I scream as well because I see the coyote on top of him,” Solomon’s mother, Sarina Donohoo, told FOX 11 Los Angeles.

TODDLER FLEES IN TERROR AS COYOTE CHASES HIM OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA FAMILY HOME IN BROAD DAYLIGHT

“He bit me,” Solomon said. “He tried to drag me.”

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife believes the animal may be responsible for even more attacks than initially believed, according to reporting from FOX 11 Los Angeles. 

The coyote may have been a “repeat offender,” linked to two additional victims reporting attacks March 26 and March 30. According to FOX 11, DNA testing linked the coyote to a separate attack on a child Feb. 11 near an elementary school. 

Wildlife authorities confirmed with FOX 11 that the coyote was “humanely euthanized” Thursday using “standard protocol” for animals that attack humans.

OREGON CHILD ATTACKED BY COYOTE DURING GAME OF HIDE-AND-SEEK IN BACKYARD; STATE OFFICIALS SOUND ALARM

“For a wild animal to walk up into your yard and try to snatch your grandchild, it’s like the most horrific thing in the world,” Solomon’s grandmother and property owner Stephanie Fields added.

The incident happened early in the morning, just before 9 a.m., as the boy’s mother was unloading groceries from her vehicle.

“I was so scared because I know how bad it could have been,” Sarina said, recalling the chilling incident. “My initial response was just, ‘I need to get him away.’”

Grandfather Stanley Fields shared that little Solomon is now undergoing a series of rabies treatments.

“He got nipped three times, and now he’s going through rabies protocol,” Stanley said. “He’s 4 years old, and I just think it was a little much for a young child to experience.”

A neighbor who operates a nearby daycare told FOX 11 she now carries an air horn and a golf club for protection in the area.

Authorities have urged residents in the neighborhood to “remain vigilant” as officials confirm whether other aggressive coyotes remain in the area, according to FOX 11.

Other recommendations for residents include supervising small children, especially outdoors, and using loud noises like air horns to deter wild animals. Residents are also encouraged to secure any food waste and trash bins.

Authorities encourage witnesses to call the Carson Sheriff’s Station at 310-830-1123 for coyote attacks or California Fish & Wildlife at 858-467-4257 for coyote sightings.

The Los Angeles Lakers’ championship hopes just took a major hit.

NBA scoring leader Luka Dončić will miss the rest of the regular season with a Grade 2 strain of his left hamstring, the team announced Friday.

It’s unclear what his status is for the postseason.

Dončić was the main reason the Lakers climbed into the third spot in the Western Conference standings. But an injury to his leg during Los Angeles’ blowout loss in Oklahoma City Thursday has taken that all away after an MRI exam revealed the severity of the strain.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM

Lakers coach JJ Redick said Dončić was injured in the first half against the Thunder but was cleared to return to the game while his team was getting plastered by the defending NBA champion Thunder. 

Dončić lasted only about four minutes before he spun, stopped and went down on the court in pain, leading to his departure.

The Lakers acquired Dončić in a surprising and controversial trade in February 2025, when the Dallas Mavericks sent the Latvian superstar, along with Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to LA in exchange for 31-year-old Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick. The move left many fans and pundits puzzled, believing the trade was lopsided in favor of the Lakers.

The Pacific Division champion Lakers (50-27) have just five games left before the postseason, starting Sunday at Dallas.

Grade 2 hamstring strains sometimes require several weeks of recovery, but Dončić also has prior experience with hamstring issues. He missed four games right before the All-Star break with another left hamstring strain but returned to the lineup after the break.

LAKERS STAR LUKA DONČIĆ SAYS HE’S IN A CUSTODY BATTLE WITH FIANCÉE OVER DAUGHTERS

Dončić is putting up spectacular numbers in his first full season with the Lakers, who acquired the Slovenian superstar from the Mavericks last season. 

He is averaging 33.5 points, 8.3 assists and 7.7 rebounds per game for Los Angeles, and he was named the NBA’s Western Conference player of the month for March after racking up 13 consecutive 30-point performances, including seven 40-point games, a 51-point barrage against Chicago and a 60-point masterclass in Miami.

Dončić scored 600 points in March, becoming only the 10th player in NBA history to hit that mark in a single month. While LeBron James and Austin Reaves have also played well down the stretch, the Lakers depend on Dončić, who either scored or assisted on 58% of their total points in March.

The Lakers’ regular-season finale is next Sunday, April 12, at home against Utah. Their first-round playoff series is expected to start the following weekend.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission are nearly halfway to the moon since launching Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center.

“Since [Thursday’s] trans-lunar injection burn to send the crew around the moon, the mission continues to perform well overall, and the crew is in great spirits,” Lakiesha Hawkins, acting deputy associate administrator for NASA’s exploration systems, said at a news conference Friday.

“Currently, the crew is more than 100,000 miles from Earth and about 150,000 miles to go away from the moon.

“We call amazing things that humans do moonshots for a reason, and, indeed, this is literally and symbolically our moonshot that we are in the middle of.”

NASA RACES TO BUILD MOON BASE AS US CHALLENGES CHINA IN NEW SPACE RACE

Hawkins also shared two photos taken by Cmdr. Reid Wiseman from the Orion spacecraft.

The first image, Hawkins said, shows a “backlit Earth revealing auroras as the crew heads toward the moon.”

She said it was taken by astronaut Wiseman from of a window on the Orion spacecraft, and it features two auroras and zodiacal light “at the bottom right. It’s visible as the Earth eclipses to sun.”

“It’s great to think — with the exception of our four friends — all of us are represented in this image,” Hawkins said.

NASA RETURNS HUMANS TO DEEP SPACE AFTER OVER 50 YEARS WITH FEBRUARY ARTEMIS II MOON MISSION

A second photo taken Thursday by Wiseman after the trans-lunar injection burn, which propels a spacecraft out of the Earth’s orbit, shows the terminator line, separating day from night on Earth.

“So, we continue to learn about our spacecraft as we operate it in deep space with crew for the first time, and it’s important to remind ourselves of that as we learn a little bit more day by day,” Hawkins said.

ARTEMIS II CREW DESCRIBES LIFE ABOARD ORION SPACECRAFT ON HISTORIC JOURNEY TO THE MOON AND BACK

Artemis II Ascent Flight Director Judd Frieling said, after the trans-lunar injection burn Thursday, the crew did an inspection of windows, planned medical conferences and, while they were asleep, the ground crew checked to see how the spacecraft was functioning.

And after the astronauts woke up Friday morning, they were able to talk to their families.

“We had planned a trajectory correction burn,” Frieling said. “The systems are doing so well now — navigation and propulsion systems together — that that was not needed. So, we’ll roll that into the next planned correction trajectory burn tomorrow.”

THE RACE TO THE MOON IS BACK; NASA NEEDS TO GET SERIOUS TO BEAT THE CHINESE

Howard Hu, Orion’s program manager, said the subsystems on the spacecraft continue to perform well, the air revitalization system is “doing very well” and the propellant usage was within 5% of predicated usage limits.

He said they are working through one pressurization issue that relates to helium that pressurizes propellant tanks that push out the oxidizer and the fuel to make some of the major burns.

Hu said one branch had to be isolated, but it’s redundant and has no impact on the mission.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION

“We’re able to do the rest of the burns across the mission without doing any regulation, what we call blowdown mode,” he said. “In other words, there’s enough helium pressure in the tanks in the oxidizer itself that we can push out the fuel without needing to regulate or require more helium from the helium tanks.”

Hu also showed a photo of part of the Earth seen through a window on the spacecraft, which he said was also taken by Wiseman.

“It just brings a lot of great emotion to me to see that picture being taken,” Hu said.

Hu showed another photo of the crew, joking that Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen looked like he wasn’t “working that hard, so I’m going to have to check to make sure if he’s doing anything more than lying there on the side here, but great to see the crew. Great to see their smiling faces and hear them talk about their experiences so far.”

Also on board the Orion capsule for the 10-day mission to fly around the moon is NASA Pilot Victor Glover and Mission Specialist Christina Koch.