AZ - Woman recovering from teen rock-throwing spree in Weatherford

The teens are accused of hitting Dyan Jay-Heim in the face with a golfball-sized rock that went through the windshield of the tractor-trailer rig in which she was a passenger.

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she required 21 stitches and must replace three broken teeth after at least one of two teens hit her in the face with a rock on July 15 while she was traveling through Weatherford.

Two 14-year-old boys suspected of throwing rocks and railroad spikes onto Interstate 20 near the Bankhead Drive exit in Weatherford were initially detained by police, said Lt. Christopher Crawford, Weatherford police spokesman. The teens were released to their parents on Thursday

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Jay-Heim, 59, who lives in a community about 30 miles east of Tucson, Ariz., said she turned to her husband, Wayne Heim, just as the rock came through the windshield. If she had not turned, Jay-Heim said she fears the rock would have struck her in the eye.

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Weatherford police said 14 vehicles, 10 passenger vehicles and four tractor-trailer rigs, were damaged during the rock throwing incident. Jay-Heim said that the combined relative speeds of the vehicles and the rocks could have been fatal for motorists.

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popsicle said:

WTH They need to come down hard on these kids/teens/adults doing this stuff.

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