*Why? This is the question in our hearts as we remain perplexed as to why four teens decided to get their kicks by throwing a construction sandbag off a freeway overpass. That same sandbag landed on a car traveling below; a car with a passenger who is dead because of it.
It didn’t take long for the teens, three 14 and one 13, to be apprehended. They were located not far from the area where the incident happened.
According to authorities, who believe the act was intentional, not accidental, the sandbag was thrown over the Indiana Avenue bridge onto Interstate 75 in Toledo on Dec. 19, around 10 p.m. The bag landed on a car, crashed through the windshield and critically injured the front passenger, Marquise Byrd, of Warren, Michigan.
The driver, who was heading south on I-75, was not injured.
Byrd, who was the father of a one-year-old boy, was engaged to be married.
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