{"id":271471,"date":"2025-11-09T05:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271471\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T05:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:43:10","slug":"suspected-coyote-attack-in-mississauga-leaves-woman-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271471\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected coyote attack in Mississauga leaves woman seriously injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly woman is fighting for her life after being found injured in a park in Mississauga. Jon Woodward has the latest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A woman is in critical condition after an apparent coyote attack at a Mississauga park on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Peel police said they were called to <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/tUMtqDVfuFEMkVxZ6\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/tUMtqDVfuFEMkVxZ6\">Lewis Bradley Park,<\/a> located in the area of Embassy Avenue and Inverhouse Drive, shortly after 6:30 a.m. for reports of a missing vulnerable person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When officers arrived, they searched the park and located the missing woman with injuries to her lower body, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Peel paramedics told CP24 that they performed life-saving measures on the woman before taking her to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police confirmed the woman was just reported missing this morning, but she may have been wandering overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere is no indication at this time that the injuries were sustained by foul play,\u201d police said without specifying how the woman got injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">However, CTV News Toronto has confirmed through eyewitnesses at the scene that the woman\u2019s injuries appear to be from a coyote attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Witnesses said the attack happened behind a tree next to a playground overnight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident has left some neighbours worried.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s very sad, but I can see that happening because there are a lot of dogs,\u201d resident Tracey Lee said. \u201cI always have a flashlight and bear spray with me as well in case anything happens. I see them frequently. They\u2019re around all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement, a spokesperson for the City of Mississauga said there have been \u201cvery few\u201d reported sightings around the park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere are currently no advisories for wildlife sightings in the area,\u201d the city said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from CTV News Toronto\u2019s Jon Woodward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elderly woman is fighting for her life after being found injured in a park in Mississauga. Jon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[712,45,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-271471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}