Teen charged with assault for Alki Beach bonfire explosion
SEATTLE -- A teenager accused of causing a bonfire explosion that burned himself and three other teens has been charged with assault.
Police say 18-year-old Marshall Herrick tossed an envelope full of racing fuel onto an end-of-school bonfire at Alki Beach in June.
The students, who had just graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Federal Way, had gathered to partake in an unofficial tradition: burning homework on Alki Beach to mark the end of high school.
According to students, the event was meant to be drug and alcohol free, but witnesses told police that Herrick appeared intoxicated when he sparked the explosion.
Herrick has been charged with three counts of assault for the three students who were hurt in the fire.
Police say 18-year-old Marshall Herrick tossed an envelope full of racing fuel onto an end-of-school bonfire at Alki Beach in June.
The students, who had just graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Federal Way, had gathered to partake in an unofficial tradition: burning homework on Alki Beach to mark the end of high school.
According to students, the event was meant to be drug and alcohol free, but witnesses told police that Herrick appeared intoxicated when he sparked the explosion.
Herrick has been charged with three counts of assault for the three students who were hurt in the fire.
Dontcha just love how we write our laws?
I could accept reckless endangerment, but assault?
Police say 18-year-old Marshall Herrick tossed an envelope full of racing fuel onto an end-of-school bonfire at Alki Beach in June. Barlion How can you begin to suggest it was an accident? Leaded gasoline,Nitromethane and methanol fuel, Methanol fuel, Ethanol fuel and Nitrous are all used at race tracks where one certainly doesn't allow smoking or open flames around pits for a reason... Marshall has unfortunately learned a lesson about the word flamable Thank God no one was killed!
An accident is not an assault. I don't care if he was intoxicated.Â
Dang, i hope this doesnt affect his Mensa scholarship.