3 Workers in O.C. Hit by Pellet Shots
Orange County sheriff’s deputies were investigating the pellet gun shootings this week of three construction workers in Lake Forest.
“We don’t know what’s prompting this, but we’re taking it very seriously,” Jim Amormino, a Sheriff’s Department spokesman, said of the shootings that left one worker with a welt on his wrist and two others with quarter-sized welts on their backs.
None of the workers hit by the pellet gun -- an air-powered weapon that shoots tiny bits of metal -- required hospitalization, Amormino said.
The attacks began Wednesday morning, he said, when a subcontractor working in the area of Rockfield Street on the El Toro Road rejuvenation project was hit by a pellet in the wrist.
Another worker in the area was hit Thursday, Amormino said, and a third man was hit Friday. Two other workers, he said, were fired at but were not hit.
According to witnesses, Amormino said, the shots may have been fired by two young men seen driving away. Anyone with information is asked to call (949) 425-1900 or (714) 628-7170.
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