Teens Detained In High School Homecoming Chemical Bomb Attacks
October 16, 2007 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
San Jose: Two teenage boys are facing felony charges for allegedly tossing homemade bombs into a high school homecoming dance and a girl’s sweet 16 party.
The pair, ages 16 and 17, allegedly copied the bombs — water bottles filled with chlorine and alcohol from videos posted on YouTube.
The birthday girl, according to authorities, suffered burns when she picked up a bottle in her backyard and it exploded Saturday night.
Seven other partygoers were taken to the hospital or treated by paramedics.
Police believe the same boys threw a similar chemical bomb at the Pioneer High homecoming dance, also Saturday. None of the 700 students there was injured.
The two suspects have been booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
