"If you go over here. You can see there is a line right here. This used to be all painted shut, and now it's open. Then, right here is a two-foot crack," said Cathy Rodriguez.
"The younger girl had blood all over the face. She was in complete shock. I think there might have been something with her arm being dislocated because she had kind of like an awkward position. They looked in shock and easily that the explosion took out their ear drum - I assume - because people were trying to talk to them and they were not really hearing it," said Oscar Vazquez, a resident in the area.
His name was Emmanuel Padilla-Maciel, and at the time he was a 19-year-old known to the woman alone in her living room with him as a laid back, chill type of person. She asked him what was causing him to behave so uncharacteristically. What followed, according to her court testimony, was a chilling confession to a homicide that occurred just two days earlier in the same city where they were watching TV.
