BRIEFLY SHOT FROM VEHICLE WOUNDS TEEN GIRL.PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. - A teenage girl was shot and wounded by a pellet gun a gun that fires small pellets, less than 3 mm diameter, usually made of metal. See also: Pellet or BB gun fired from a passing car - possibly by a young man wearing black plastic devil horns on his head, deputies said. The girl and three friends ages 15 and 16 were walking along Fifth Street West south of Palmdale Boulevard about 4 p.m. Friday when a Honda Civic The Honda Civic is a compact car manufactured by Honda. It was introduced in July 1972 as a two-door coupe, followed by a three-door hatchback version that September. With the transverse engine placement of its 1169 cc engine and front-wheel drive, like the British Mini, the containing three young men pulled up and the occupants fired at them, the girl's mother said. The BB penetrated the skin on the girl's arm, said her mother, who asked not to be named. Her friends took her home and she was later taken to a hospital, where she was treated and released. The girls said the assailants were three young white men about 18 to 22 years old, all wearing dark sunglasses sunglasses A tinted pair of glasses used to ↓ light arriving at the eye, which are labeled according to the amount of UV light blocked; nonprescription glasses are classified according to use and amount of UV radiation blocked Sunglasses and riding in a newer black Honda Civic. The front-seat passenger might have been wearing black plastic devil horns, deputies were told. A friend told deputies the car's occupants might have been skinheads Noun 1. skinheads - a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks . The victim is African-American. Anyone with information can call the Palmdale sheriff's station at (661) 267-4300. - Daily News |
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