CENTRALIA, IL — A juvenile boy was injured and had to be rushed to a local hospital around 11:30 Tuesday evening when an incendiary device was thrown through his bedroom window. The 13-year-old resident of a home in the 600 block of South Locust Street in Centralia sustained burns to his left forearm and hand when a Molotov cocktail burst through a piece of cardboard covering his bedroom window and landed in the boy’s bed.

Centralia fire officials say the boy’s father, Jared Halstien had removed the boy from danger and put out the fire by the time they arrived.

The boy’s injury and circumstances of that injury required the State Fire Marshal’s Office to call for an investigation with the Centralia Police Department as well as the Illinois State Police Crime Scene Investigation Unit.

This investigation is ongoing; however, police say they have suspects, and we will report more on this once we receive the information from law enforcement.