EUREKA - A suicide gone wrong may have claimed an innocent victim early Saturday morning, when a bullet apparently passed through a young man and then fatally struck a teenage bystander. That's the story from family and friends of Lorena Mocko, a 16-year-old girl found dead at a house south of Eureka.Authorities have remained tight-lipped about the incident, except to say that her body was found near that of Jacob Randal Lee, 19, at about 1 a.m. Saturday. Lee, officers said, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
But while investigators have said little about Mocko, friends in her hometown of Fernie, British Columbia, say officials in Lincoln County confirmed to them that the two teens were at a party when Lee shot himself. The bullet apparently passed through Lee's head, striking Mocko in the chest.