Unfortunately, this doesn't surprise me.
Coyotes are opportunistic and have been moving eastward for decades. With the void left by the eradication of the wolf population on the eastern seaboard over 100 years ago, 'yotes will "fill the void". As they also scavenge a lot of their food, how many of them have been raiding trash dumps, pet food put out by well intended suburbanites that these vermin will raid?