In video first shared by Instagram user @chicagocritterrr, a police officer can be seen poking and prodding around the store's refrigerated section with what appears to be a Swiffer Sweeper. As the officer begins to pull the coyote out by its tail, a man can be heard warning shoppers, "Watch out, guys! Watch out!"

Customers gasped as officers made several attempts to yank the coyote out of the shelf, finally pulling the animal out by its tail.

It was not known how a coyote found its way to the Aldi at 800 N. Kedzie Ave., but police officers and the city's animal control department helped out, Chicago police said. The coyote will get a health assessment before it's released.

Officials gave an update Tuesday on a coyote pulled from a refrigerator shelf at an Aldi in Chicago, a moment that was captured on now-viral video.

Imagine shopping for groceries and stumbling upon a wild coyote in the frozen food aisle. That's exactly what happened in a Chicago Aldi store today.

Aldi shoppers got more than they bargained for when a cop yanked a coyote from a fridge by the tail. The strange scene played out in the supermarket chain’s Kedzie Avenue store in Chicago, Illinois, Monday morning and comes amid mating season.

A confused coyote was removed from a grocery store's refrigerated shelf Monday morning. The incident occurred at a Chicago-area Aldi store, where the animal apparently sought refuge in the store's produce aisle.

A surprise shopper caused a stir at a Chicago supermarket on Monday morning-a coyote decided to check out the produce aisle before being escorted out. Customers at an Aldi were in for a shock when officers pulled a coyote out of the refrigerated section-a howlingly harrowing moment captured on video.

Customers gasped as officers made several attempts to yank the coyote out of the shelf, finally pulling the animal out by its tail.