Vancouver Acid Attack and Bethany Storro Condition
By: John Lester
Staff Writer
Published: Sep 2, 2010
Vancouver acid attack leaves Bethany Storro in critical condition, sunglasses saved her eyes, Nancy Neuwelt said.
Vancouver acid attack and Bethany Storro condition. Acid attack victim Bethany Storro is in serious condition in Vancouver. Her mother, Nancy Neuwelt, said she was wearing sunglasses at the time of the acid attack.
Acid attack victim Bethany Storro is in serious condition, but her doctor is very optimistic. The incident occurred in Vancouver, Washington, when a female assailant threw an acidic liquid on her face. The woman walked up to her and asked "hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this" and ran off.
Nancy Neuwelt, the victim's mother, said her daughter was taken to the burn center of Legacy Emanuel in Vancouver. Neuwelt said her daughter was near Esther Short Park, about 8th and Columbia, around 7:30 p.m. She was getting something out of the passenger side of her car before heading into a Starbucks.
Bethany Storro was wearing sunglasses that prevented the liquid from directly hitting her eyes. Neuwelt said she purchased the sunglasses only a few hours earlier, and that it was "the hand of God protecting her eyes. She would have been blind." Her mother called the attack "an act of evil."
Storro, 28, stumbled about in pain and fell to the ground screaming. A passerby called police using Storro's cell phone. "She was screaming that it burned, that it burned, that it burned," Dwayne Stewart, who ran to grab a wet towel for Storro, said in a statement. "Her face was swollen and you could see every pore in her face magnified," Stewart said, "It was a really horrible horrible injury that was done."
By: John Lester
Staff Writer
Published: Sep 2, 2010
Vancouver acid attack leaves Bethany Storro in critical condition, sunglasses saved her eyes, Nancy Neuwelt said.
Vancouver acid attack and Bethany Storro condition. Acid attack victim Bethany Storro is in serious condition in Vancouver. Her mother, Nancy Neuwelt, said she was wearing sunglasses at the time of the acid attack.
Acid attack victim Bethany Storro is in serious condition, but her doctor is very optimistic. The incident occurred in Vancouver, Washington, when a female assailant threw an acidic liquid on her face. The woman walked up to her and asked "hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this" and ran off.
Nancy Neuwelt, the victim's mother, said her daughter was taken to the burn center of Legacy Emanuel in Vancouver. Neuwelt said her daughter was near Esther Short Park, about 8th and Columbia, around 7:30 p.m. She was getting something out of the passenger side of her car before heading into a Starbucks.
Bethany Storro was wearing sunglasses that prevented the liquid from directly hitting her eyes. Neuwelt said she purchased the sunglasses only a few hours earlier, and that it was "the hand of God protecting her eyes. She would have been blind." Her mother called the attack "an act of evil."
Storro, 28, stumbled about in pain and fell to the ground screaming. A passerby called police using Storro's cell phone. "She was screaming that it burned, that it burned, that it burned," Dwayne Stewart, who ran to grab a wet towel for Storro, said in a statement. "Her face was swollen and you could see every pore in her face magnified," Stewart said, "It was a really horrible horrible injury that was done."