Bullet Fragment Found In Neck Of Boy Who Went Viral For Saying His Friend Shielded Him From School Shooting

Doctors discovered a slug part successful nan cervix of a 10-year-old boy who went viral for recounting really his friend jumped connected apical of him to shield him during a wide shooting astatine Annunciation Catholic Church successful Minneapolis that killed 2 children and injured others.

Weston Halsne, a fifth-grade student astatine Annunciation Catholic School, was attending Mass connected Wednesday erstwhile nan shooting occurred. He recounted moving nether a pew and covering his caput while shots came done nan stained-glass windows, and said his friend Victor was changeable while shielding him.

“I deliberation I got, like, gunpowder connected my neck,” he said aft nan shooting.

But doctors later discovered it was not conscionable gunpowder that deed nan 10-year-old’s neck, but a slug part arsenic well.

Weston’s father, Grant Halsne, told NBC News that nan part came adjacent to — but didn’t deed — nan 10-year-old’s carotid artery, which a expert described nan arsenic a “miracle.”

“If it [the slug fragment] went immoderate further, he would’ve died,” Grant Halsne said.

The Halsne family is waiting to corroborate erstwhile nan room to region nan part will beryllium scheduled, but hopes it will beryllium sometime early adjacent week. The part is successful a very delicate area, but Weston is expected to make a afloat recovery, his begetter said.

Grant Halsne said nan shooting has near his boy frightened and not wanting to beryllium alone.

“He’s frightened of large noises,” nan begetter said. “The kid to his near was killed.”

On Wednesday conscionable earlier 8:30 a.m., 23-year-old Robin Westman fired a firearm done nan broadside windows of Annunciation Catholic School’s church, aiming astatine children sitting successful nan pews.

Weston remembered thinking, “What is that?” erstwhile he heard nan first gunshot. When he heard it again, he ran nether nan pew.

The student had practiced what to do during an progressive shooter situation, but ne'er astatine nan church, he said.

“I was for illustration 2 seats distant from nan stained solid windows,” Weston said. “So, they were like, nan shots were for illustration correct adjacent to me.”

Westman was recovered dormant astatine nan rear of nan religion pinch an evident self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to hunt warrants. She was recovered dressed successful achromatic “tactical” cogwheel and officials recovered astir 120 ammunition casings from 3 different guns that she used, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara.

The investigation into nan shooting is ongoing.