Teen's Eye Badly Injured By Pranksters Throwing Eggs

ORANGEVALE (CBS13) -- A teenage boy visiting Sacramento to honor his brother who died of leukemia has ended up legally blind in his right eye after pranksters threw eggs at him.

Doctors say Aric Dyer may never be able to see the same again.

They were just seconds away from home last Friday when they passed two cars.

Then all of a sudden we felt kinda shrapnel coming in the window so we all ducked," said Aric's cousin, Max Berlin, who was driving the car that night with Aric in a back seat.

"As soon as I turned around I got hit," Aric said.

Aric is a standout baseball player in his hometown of Salinas. His dreams of being a professional baseball player may now be forgotten. The damage to Aric's right eye could be permanent, but the 14-year-old's first thought wasn't that.

"They were in town to do a cancer walk," Max explained.

The next morning Aric and his family planned to walk in honor of his older brother Brandon, who died of leukemia last year.

"He had just joined the military and was going through bootcamp when he started coughing up blood," Max said of Brandon.

But despite spending the night in the hospital, Aric made the cancer walk in a wheelchair.

Now, his family had a message for the jokesters: that no one is laughing.

"We're trying to find them obviously or at least make sure that it stops," Max said.

The family believes the pranksters went to the local high school -- Casa Roble -- they've spoken to the principal and he says he'll send an alert to parents.

Investigators say that because the teens didn't get a good look at the egg-throwers, they have no leads to go on.