On Friday evening Joyce Kinkead was watching the Utah Jazz face off against the Los Angeles Clippers — and that’s when she heard it.
“It sounded like a sonic boom,” Kinkead said. “People heard it around the neighborhood.”
The next day, via chatter on a neighborhood app used by people in her community, Kinkead found the nearby little free library she had stewarded over for several years had been “blown up.”
“I just felt like I got gut punched,” Kinkead said.
North Park Police Chief Ulysses Black said the incident was under investigation and agreed the book exchange appeared to have been “blown up.” Black said police received a call just before 11 p.m. on Friday regarding an explosion.
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