Santa Ana : Boy, 13, Injured by Homemade Explosive
A 13-year-old Santa Ana boy was injured Friday afternoon when a homemade explosive device he was building detonated in a friend’s garage, police said.
The youth and two friends were building the device with carbon dioxide cartridges and matches at a house in the 18000 block of Silver Maple Way, Sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Richard J. Olson said.
Neighbors reported what sounded like an explosion at 4:30 p.m., Olson said. The boy was taken to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, where he was listed Friday in stable condition with a puncture wound to the thigh. His two friends were not hurt, Olson said.
He did not know where the youths obtained the carbon dioxide cartridges.
The youths’ names were withheld because of their ages.
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