As an elderly California man recovered from surgery after being seriously injured by a bomb in his Sunday paper, investigators and neighbors sought answers: Who planted the device? And why?
The force of the blast nearly took off a finger on the man's right hand and caused other injuries to his arm and side, neighbors said.
"He was saying 'the bomb, the bomb,' so he had some idea of what had happened," said Gil Guerrero, a firefighter with emergency medical training who lives across the street from the victim and was at his side moments after the explosion.
But in the aftermath there are as many questions as answers.
Some details are still unknown. Some are being kept secret.
Police in Vacaville — about halfway between the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento — would not identify the victim, who is in his 80s, and advised his family members not to release their names or discuss the case, in the event a threat to their safety remains.
The victim's wife and his son, who asked to be identified only as "John," got word Monday afternoon that the vic
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