Misfired artillery round hits N.J. home
Associated Press
Fri April 11, 2008
Area: New York
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey - What may have been a small artillery shell slammed through the roof of a house in New Jersey Friday, and killed a cat.
The Star-Ledger of Newark says the six-by-four-inch object landed on 10-year-old Casandra Angel's bed. She had left about 20 minutes earlier to go to a sleepover at a friend's house. But the family cat was injured and had to be put to sleep.
The house is about two and a-half miles from the Army's Picatinny Arsenal, which was conducting weapons tests at the time. Investigators think that's where the non-explosive round came from.
Picatinny is the site of the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, which conducts research, development and engineering for weapons systems.
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