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Canadian musician Taylor Mitchell killed by coyotes

Taylor Mitchell

A teenager mauled to death by two coyotes while hiking alone in Canada was a promising young musician, it has emerged.

The victim was identified as 19-year-old Taylor Mitchell, a singer-songwriter from Toronto who was touring to promote her new album.

Taylor was hiking on a trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia, on Tuesday when the wild animals pounced on her.

She was airlifted to a Halifax hospital in a critical condition but died on Wednesday morning, authorities said. [Sky News]


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Tags: coyotes, RIP, Taylor Mitchell

Posted on October 29, 2009 10:52 AM

Comments (51)

such a tragic story.

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 11:01 AM

thats what she gets being from Canada

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 11:13 AM

nature, the musician's new enemy

Posted by gimme | October 29, 2009 11:19 AM

It took being mauled to death by coyotes to be covered by BrooklynVegan. Nice.

Posted by M | October 29, 2009 11:26 AM

I guess that coyote from the Looney Toons cartoon finally won!

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 11:27 AM

that is the most metal thing i have ever heard in my life.

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 11:28 AM

how big are the cyotes in Canada???

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 11:36 AM

dress the coyotes in skinny jeans and have the play union pool.

whilst being mauled: "yea man i'm so over wavves...wolvves is the new sound"

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 11:51 AM

I'd hit it.

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 11:56 AM

"Tragedy today, as singer-songwriter Taylor Mitchell was eaten by wolves. She was delicious. ... Now, now; that's just superfluous, you know?"

"It's a teenage singer-songwriter, Tom. What do you say---she's not delicious?"

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As tragic as this is, I hope we don't burn down a National Park in revenge or anything like that.

Posted by M | October 29, 2009 11:58 AM

Congrats guys..this is turning into the most heartless thread ever..what next Taylor MEHchell..what time to the Coyotes go on?

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 11:58 AM

C'mon now.

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 11:58 AM

Heartless Hipsters

Posted by darnell | October 29, 2009 12:05 PM

Canadian Police say the coyotes left an empty "ACME" sling-shot box at the scene.

They also confirm the singer was dressed as a Roadrunner at the time fo the attack.

Posted by FrostBiteBoy | October 29, 2009 12:07 PM

brooklynvegan, why would you post this? i guess its "music news", but you knew that your commenters were going to pull this shit

Posted by shame on you | October 29, 2009 12:17 PM

his commenters pull "this shit" on virtually everything that's posted.

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 12:31 PM


Wolves in the throne room

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 12:53 PM

wolves in the throne room destroys all

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 12:55 PM

whens a coyote gonna eat dan deacon? i wanna watch.

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 1:02 PM

sounds like a wolf parade

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 1:07 PM

Yo yo yo Taylor Swift, Imma let you finish, but Taylor Mitchell got eaten by Coyotes!!!

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 1:46 PM

In other news, DINGOS ATE MY BABY!!!!

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 1:48 PM

I feel terrible for Taylor's family.

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 2:17 PM

those coyotes certainly weren't vegan!

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 2:55 PM

how black metal of her

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 2:59 PM

Darnell...Is that a band name yet?

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 3:08 PM

goddamn what a fuckin' extreme way to die.

Posted by jake | October 29, 2009 4:00 PM

It never ceases to amaze me how many complete fucking cunts live in New York City and post snarky, anonymous, nonpertinent remarks. You are also a bunch of pussies because you know if you said shit like this in public you would have your skinny, worthless asses kicked. And nobody would care.

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 4:22 PM

hope her family doesn't have to read this thread, as it appears to be the chattering of a bunch of unfunny 12 year olds with an immature disrespect for the dead

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 4:22 PM

>>It never ceases to amaze me how many complete fucking cunts live in New York City and post snarky, anonymous, nonpertinent remarks. You are also a bunch of pussies because you know if you said shit like this in public you would have your skinny, worthless asses kicked. And nobody would care.

god bless you for saying that, and i could not agree more. i live and work in the heart of where most cmj shows take place, and while i do read this blog every single day, i can not believe the immature nature of a so many of the comments. It's most unfortunate.

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 4:33 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/29/canada.singer.killed/index.html

shits be on cnn now

"deep affinity" with nature can screw you

Posted by gimme | October 29, 2009 4:38 PM

>i can not believe the immature nature of a so many
>of the comments.

First time reading the comments on this blog?

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 4:40 PM

"whens a coyote gonna eat dan deacon? i wanna watch."

One coyote? All the north american coyotes could feast on him for a year...

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 5:45 PM

It never ceases to amaze me how many complete fucking cunts live in New York City and post snarky, anonymous, nonpertinent remarks. You are also a bunch of pussies because you know if you said shit like this in public you would have your skinny, worthless asses kicked. And nobody would care.

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 4:22 PM

hope her family doesn't have to read this thread, as it appears to be the chattering of a bunch of unfunny 12 year olds with an immature disrespect for the dead

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 4:22 PM
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"how many" and "bunch of" - don't be so presumptuous as to think all of the comments are coming from a multitude of losers. It is entirely possible that they all stem from one or two or just a handful of douchebags. The problem I have with the idea that these comments are coming from the stereotypical hipster is that it would require the hipster to actually express emotions and thoughts of some kind and I just can't see that happening. In all likelihood, it is probably a fat boy with buck teeth living in a parent's basement.

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 6:34 PM

I love all these comments. I laughed my ass off. It's what makes BV so fun.

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 6:58 PM

were those 45 yr old female coyotes in search of younger prey?

Posted by cy yote | October 29, 2009 7:26 PM

There are some real assholes posting on this site.
A girl died. She has a family, friends and admirers of her music.
None of you would want your death to be the butt of a joke, whether you deserve it or not.

Posted by Glenn | October 29, 2009 11:25 PM

yeah, and the comments were so predictable. on the mainpage when i saw the headline, i knew the bv commenters would make nasty comments about a young girl dying. and sure enough there they were. my fault for clicking though because i did know better.

Posted by Anonymous | October 29, 2009 11:31 PM

but you read them anyway and were so "appalled" by what you knew would happen, makes total sense

Posted by huh? | October 30, 2009 1:37 AM

Does New York contain many of these feeble sacks of human garbage? Obviously, writing this sniggering, scummy rubbish is designed to upset those of a more advanced and compassionate state of mind. My recommendation is don't rise to it. Life's too short - although, as it applies to these pieces of evolutionary failure, it's actually too long.

Posted by Trevor Williams | October 30, 2009 4:52 AM

They need more guns in Canada like USA.

Posted by X | October 30, 2009 7:05 AM

why does everything have to devolve into HIPSTER HIPSTER OMG. some people are assholes and some people are not. it has nothing to do with living in brooklyn.

Posted by Anonymous | October 30, 2009 9:52 AM

Brooklyn zoo, shame on ya!

Posted by Anonymous | October 30, 2009 10:13 AM

I just clicked on her myspace page and heard one of her songs.

I think those coyotes must have done the same thing a few days ago.


(KIDDING! you big babies)

Posted by nightscientist | October 30, 2009 1:31 PM

these comments must be from jersey

Posted by long islander | October 30, 2009 2:07 PM

In that picture above, is that the place where she was eaten?

Posted by Anonymous | October 30, 2009 3:00 PM

coyote prophylactic: german sheperd dog.

Posted by drunkenstepdad | October 30, 2009 6:50 PM

I didn't think coyotes ever attacked people, and I wouldn't have imagined there being any coyotes in Canada in the first place

Posted by Gary Wilkes | October 31, 2009 1:24 AM

The irony is that she was a vegetarian. She didn't eat animals.

But that didn't stop animals from eating her.

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Her mom said there is some comfort in knowing how much Taylor loved nature so this is kind of how she would like to go, surrounded by nature being killed in a natural way, or something stupid like that. And Taylor wouldn't want the coyotes killed for just being themselves. That's from her mom and I'm not sure I can think of anything more stupider than that.

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Also, some people heard her scream and called the police. That's nice I guess. Did anyone hear her scream and run to help her?!

Useless canucks...

Posted by booboo | October 31, 2009 1:27 AM

Reading this blog, I just have to feel sorry for our society. Unbelievable. Perhaps it would be better if coyotes ate all of us.

Posted by Anonymous | October 31, 2009 2:23 AM

I had thought Jim Basille didn't get the right to move the Coyotes to Canada???

Posted by Anonymous | October 31, 2009 6:25 PM

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