Man strangles coyote to death after it attacks his son

A New Hampshire man killed a coyote with his bare hands Monday after it grabbed his 2-year-old son by his jacket hood and dragged him to the ground.

Ian O'Reilly told CNN he had"never harmed an animal so it was a weird experience." After the coyote bit him twice while he tried fending it off, O'Reilly kicked it away and used his body weight to suffocate it while holding its snout shut, he said in an emailed statement.O'Reilly told CNN affiliate WCVB in an interview it took him about 10 minutes to kill the coyote.

Read More"In the middle of the moment, you're not really thinking or ... recording a whole lot," he said."You're really just instinct."O'Reilly's son was not injured.An earlier attack from the same coyote?Two hours earlier, another attack occurred in nearby Kensington, according to a Kensington Police Facebook post.Pat Lee and her two dogs were sitting on her porch when a coyote attacked all three, biting Lee in the process, according to WMUR.

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