Homemade Bomb Targeted at Latino Family in Mississippi

For no apparent reason, except what the authorities in DeSoto County, Mississippi are thinking is racial violence, a chemical bomb was placed in the mailbox of a Latino family – the explosion had the potential to have had fatal consequences.

The incident happened over the weekend. WMCTV.com reported:

Alicia Paez says chemicals from the explosion were all over her yard and the street.

The perpetrator took a two-liter soda bottle, poured a household chemical into it, added ball bearings, and another material to it. All that combined to create an explosion that could have turned deadly.

“We don’t have any enemies,” Paez said. “All my neighbors next neighbors, very peaceful.”

Three quarters of the street were strewn with debris after the blast. Luckily no one was near the mailbox when it happened. The authorities say that whoever made the bomb faces felony charges for making the device as well as possible hate crime charges; there is no other motive for the attack except that the family is Latino.

DeSoto County, in the extreme Northwest corner of Mississippi ( Memphis, TN, suburb) is one of two counties in the state that had the largest population growth in the last ten years – a 50.4 percent increase to a little more than 161 thousand people, approximately 7 thousand of those are Latino.

Her’s the WMC report:

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