LAKES OF THE FOUR SEASONS, Ind.—A hand grenade exploded as a household went by a grandfather’s belongings in Indiana, killing a person and wounding his two teenage kids, police mentioned.
The explosion occurred Saturday in a storage space at a house in Lakes of the 4 Seasons, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Chicago, the Lake County sheriff’s division mentioned.
Bryan Niedert, 47, died and a 14-year-old boy and 18-year-old lady had been taken to a hospital with shrapnel wounds.
“Investigators are nonetheless making an attempt to find out components of the case together with, however not restricted to: whether or not the gadget could have self-detonated as a consequence of its age or different components, whether or not the pin was pulled or whether or not another circumstances could have been concerned,” the sheriff’s division mentioned.
Originally posted 2023-05-23 15:44:46.