Coyotes kill Toronto singer in Cape Breton:
A 19-year-old folk singer from Toronto has died after being attacked by two coyotes in Cape Breton Highlands National Park.Taylor Josephine Stephanie Luciow, who went by the stage name Taylor Mitchell, died overnight at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax. She had been on tour in the Maritimes.
Mitchell was hiking on the Skyline Trail when she was attacked Tuesday afternoon. She was taken to the hospital in Cheticamp, then airlifted to Halifax in critical condition.
Park officials said Mitchell was walking the trail alone. They said other hikers managed to scare off the coyotes and call 911.
An RCMP officer shot at one of the animals but couldn’t find the body. Later Tuesday evening, park staff located another coyote and killed it.
Derek Quann, the park’s resource conservation manager, said he doesn’t know whether it was one of the ones involved in the attack. He said there were no signs on the animal’s body that it had been shot.
