Oak Hill, FL – Paramedics took a 20-year-old Port Orange man to the hospital after one of his friends fired a bullet at a clothes dryer filled with explosive.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office says it happened around 3:30pm Saturday near the intersection of Maytown Road and Interstate 95 in Oak Hill.
According to the incident report, the injured man and 2 of his friends brought an old dryer to a wooded area near that intersection and planned to shoot rounds at it during target practice.
Those men also brought 2 pounds of Tannerite – an explosive commonly sold and used by shooters – and decided to place all of it in the dryer before firing at it, per the report.
Deputies believe one of the men used a Marlin X7 30-06 caliber rifle to set off the explosion after all of them ducked behind a table that they thought was far enough away to not be affected by the explosion. The report didn’t specify how far away the table was in relation to the dryer.
After the first shot missed the dryer, the second struck, setting off an explosion that saw a “large” piece of the dryer – possibly the door – hit the 20-year-old man in the stomach and cause a “large” laceration, per the report.
The injured man’s friends – ages 25 and 23 – loaded him onto the back of a truck and brought him to the nearest road for medical attention, where Volusia County paramedics took over and sent him to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach for treatment.
The man’s injuries weren’t life-threatening, according to VCSO.
VCSO determined no crime had occurred after the deputy saw a video of the explosion made by one of the men.
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