Colorado wildlife officials are hunting for a coyote that attacked and injured a four-year-old girl on Thanksgiving. The attack occurred on Thursday afternoon in a neighborhood east of Monument Creek – close to the Air Force Academy – in northern Colorado Springs, a Colorado Parks and Wildlife said on Saturday.

A coyote lunged at a 4-year-old girl in Colorado Springs on Thanksgiving, hospitalizing her. Now Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers say they will kill any coyote they find in the area of that attack.

Witnesses said the girl was attacked in Colorado Springs when she and another child approached a coyote crouching behind a tree thinking it was a dog.