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Show BOUNTIFUL - A 17-year-old Bountiful High junior who was accidently killed in a homemade bomb blast last Thursday night was eulogized at funeral services Monday as a "youth with outstanding academic and athletic abilities." abili-ties." TODD COOLEY, 17, a son of Clyde Cooley, 896 South 750 East, died at Lakeview Hospital Hospi-tal here shortly after a bomb he and two friends were apparently ap-parently making exploded in his face. According to Bountiful Police Department reports, the three youths were making a bomb from a three-quarter inch pipe using gunpowder from shotgun shells. SERGEANT Charles Youngblood said they were at a work bench in the basement of the Cooley home and the victim was apparently pounding pound-ing powder into the pipe when the homemade device exploded. explod-ed. Two other teenaged youths received minor injuries in the blast but were not hospitalized. hospi-talized. They were identified as Lael Brown, a cousin who was living with the victim, and Matt Dalton, 15, son of Mrs. Antoine Dalton, 822 South 750 East, Bountiful. THE YOUNG victim, said Bountiful High Principal Don Perkins, was "an above-average above-average student who was active ac-tive in varsity football and wrestling.' Scores of high school students attended the funeral Monday, grb |