The State - News from March 10, 1989

A 16-year-old boy, serving time for causing injury by hurling concrete blocks from an overpass on Interstate 15 in San Diego, escaped from a Riverside County juvenile facility--allegedly with the help of his mother. Officials at St. John’s School for Boys in Whitewater said a judge had barred the mother from visiting the boy, but a guard who was unaware of the order allowed her into the minimum-security facility. The boy was convicted of heaving a 6-pound block that smashed the windshield of a car, striking the head of passenger Kurt Meyerling, who was comatose for more than two months after the February, 1988, incident.