Calif. Man Killed by Explosive Called Eccentric
A man who was killed when a homemade explosive blew up at his home was an eccentric who bicycled around his neighborhood dispensing anti-government conspiracy pamphlets, neighbors said Monday.
“He definitely seemed paranoid about things and people,” Donna Swift said. “It was getting more extreme.”
A bomb squad, the FBI and other investigators descended on a quiet street of neatly kept ranch-style homes in an upper middle-class Orange County neighborhood after 52-year-old Kevin Harris died in a Sunday night blast.
An ambulance had been called about 90 minutes earlier when neighbors saw the man lying on his front lawn, but he refused offers of help and went inside, neighbors said.
Police were called about 7:30 p.m. after neighbors heard the explosion, and the man was found dead at his home.
Harris was killed by a homemade explosive device, but it was not immediately clear whether the blast was accidental or suicide, police Lt. Bryan Glass said.