Illinois teens charged with wreckless conduct after paintball fight
Police charged three teenagers reckless conduct. Allegedly they were having a two car paintball fight when one of the vehicles involved in the paintball fight struck an unrelated third car.
The teens were driving two cars and were headed east on Hemmingsen Rd in Grafton Township. They were throwing paintballs at each other from the moving vehicles.
One of the vehicles involved in the accident was a 1998 Caravan. The windshield of the Caravan was covered in paint. The driver, Samuel X Cox ,18, of Huntley, struck a Volkswagen Beetle being driven by Christina Park-Tegtman, 31, of Genoa. The car was also carrying a one year old girl.
Warrants were issued for the adults involved in the paintball fight which include Cox, his passenger, Julio de la Luz, 18, of Lake in the Hills and Donald Peryer, 19, of Lake in the Hills who was drving the second vehicle involved in the paintball fight.
