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MAN ARRESTED AFTER HOMEMADE CANNON BLASTS THROUGH CALIFORNIA MOBILE HOME, KILLS HIS GIRLFRIEND
Associated Press
March 6, 2012
SAN DIEGO — A man was arrested Tuesday after a homemade cannon blasted through his mobile home, killing his girlfriend in a mountain community near San Diego, authorities said.
Richard Fox, 39, shot the cannon after loading it with fireworks powder, said San Diego County sheriff’s Sgt. David Martinez. His 38-year-old girlfriend was found dead from shrapnel wounds when authorities arrived at the home.
Fox was treated at a hospital for shrapnel wounds to his right leg and arrested for investigation of exploding a device resulting in death, Martinez said. Three other adults and a 4-year-old girl who were inside the home escaped injury.
Preliminary evidence suggested Fox was under the influence of alcohol, Martinez said. Investigators had not established a motive or determined if the blast was accidental.
Fox lived at the home with his girlfriend, whose name was not released, and the 4-year-old girl, who was to be placed with a relative. Martinez declined to identify the three other adults who were inside the home.
The blast occurred in Potrero, a community of about 700 people on the Mexican border, about 40 miles east of San Diego.
John Arnold, a neighbor, told U-T San Diego that Fox worked as a handyman and lived in the home for about six years.
“He liked experimenting with guns, and it looks like this experiment went bad,” he told the newspaper.
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