Utah beauty queen gives up crown amid explosives charges; says she feels terrible about 'joke'
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A Utah beauty pageant winner charged with tossing homemade bombs from a vehicle has relinquished her crown.
Kendra McKenzie Gill tells KSL-TV (http://bit.ly/16PCCsI ) that she and her friends feel terrible about the incident, but she insists they were just playing a practical joke and never threw the explosives at people.
Gill and three friends were charged last week with four felony counts of possession of an explosive device.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Prosecutors say the 18-year-olds drove around town Aug. 2 and tossed plastic bottles of toilet bowl cleaner and shrapnel at people and property.
Nobody was injured.
Gill topped a slate of nine beauty contestants earlier this summer to become Miss Riverton.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}She said knew she'd probably have the title revoked, and wanted to step down before it was taken from her.
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Information from: KSL-TV, http://www.ksl.com/