In the middle of the news report, one reads:

“It’s scary to think that these individuals were going to throw an explosive device out of a vehicle in front of a school,” Sampson County Sheriff Jimmy Thornton said in a statement. “What were they thinking? What possible thrill could be worth potentially injuring an innocent person, especially a child?”

Fortunately for everyone in the community except two, before the above quotation one would have read:

Inside the hospital emergency room, Martin Bryant Boyette and Julio Frentez Morales were receiving treatment for injuries from a bomb blast, authorities said. An investigation determined that the pair had made several bombs at Boyette’s house, and Morales tried to throw one out the window of the minivan on U.S. Highway 701 as they drove past Hobbton Schools, authorities said.

The bomb went off in Morales’ hand, seriously injuring him, and a piece of shrapnel hit Boyette in the back of the head, authorities said.