3 Teens Held in Paintball Attack

Three teenagers were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly shooting an Anaheim woman with a paintball gun, police said.

Robert Daniel Mauna, 18, of Long Beach, Jeffrey Dale Tompkins, 18, of Buena Park, and a juvenile female from Seal Beach were arrested about midnight after police found a paintball gun in the 1997 GMC Suburban they were in, said Sgt. Mike Kelly of the Huntington Beach Police Department.

“I think they were just out to have some malicious fun,� Kelly said.

Mary Madrid, 25, was walking to her car along Pacific Coast Highway near 6th Street at about 11:30 p.m. Monday night when a paintball that she said came from the Suburban hit her in the throat.

She followed the SUV in her car and got its license plate number, Kelly said.

Madrid, whose throat was bruised and scraped, was treated by paramedics and released. No one else was injured.

“There may have been other victims,� Kelly said. “We think it’s more than likely that she wasn’t the only one they shot paintballs at, but no one else has come forward.�

The teens were stopped near Seal Beach Boulevard and the San Diego Freeway, about 11 miles from the incident.

Mauna and Tompkins were being held on $25,000 bail. The female juvenile was transported to a juvenile hall in Orange.