Manteca Teens Injured After Explosive Thrown Into Party
MANTECA (CBS13) — Police saw someone threw an explosive in the middle of a weekend party where about 60 kids were celebrating.
Mark Rangel guards the stairs to his daughter's room.
"I thought she was shot. The amount of blood on her clothes and her body and her telling me, it burns it burns it burns," he said.
It's been four days since his daughter, a recent graduate from Sierra High School, and her friends were hit with what police now say was a bundle of modified fireworks.
"It looks like someone hit her on her side with a bat. Her whole side torso is black and purple," he said.
And the improvised weapon did its damage.
"Little things were sizzling inside her skin. These cuts all over her body. She just kept telling me, 'It's burning, it's burning,'" he said.
A large group of Sierra High School teens were at an unsupervised house party on Friday night when police say someone outside of the party threw the fireworks over a wall and into the backyard. Several kids were hurt, but Rangel's daughter and her two friends suffered the worst.
"They're all in bad shape and I don't see these injuries going away in the next few weeks," he said.
A GoFundMe page for one of the victims says he suffered an eye injury and will need reconstructive surgery.
Rangel wants to know if the person who threw the explosive over the wall knew his daughter and her friends were on the other side.
"We're just not sure how safe we are," he said.
Manteca Police detectives said on Tuesday there's no indication this was a targeted attack on a specific group of students. If you have information on the case, call Det. Bill Walmer at (209) 456-8222.