Five teenagers have been charged with second-degree murder in Michigan after a rock thrown from a highway overpass killed a man in a passing van.<\/p>\n
The 6lb (2.7kg) stone smashed through the vehicle’s windshield and struck Ken White, 32, US media report.<\/p>\n
The suspects, aged 15 to 17, later drove to a McDonald’s restaurant to eat, a sheriff said.<\/p>\n
They were identified as 17-year-old Kyle Anger and 15-year-old Mark Sekelski, Mikadyn Payne, Alexander Miller and Trevor Gray. Anger was singled out as the suspect that threw the rock that hit White.<\/p>\n
They were each charged with one count of second-degree murder, as well as conspiracy to commit murder.<\/p>\n
“I don’t believe that this was a deliberate attempt to take somebody’s life,” Genesee County prosecutor David Leyton was\u00a0quoted as saying by the Chicago Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n “It was a wilful and wanton act that resulted in somebody’s death.”<\/p>\n At least 20 rocks were found on Interstate 75, including one weighing almost 20lb, and at least four vehicles were damaged.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"