A 9-year-old boy is recovering in Louisiana a month after his 10-year-old friend allegedly shot him “on purpose.”
The boy’s mother, Lakisha Ledguies, told KALB that her son Tre’Michael was spending time with his friend at a home in Alexandria on December 6 when the older boy shot him.
The Alexandria Police Department initially said the shooting appeared to be “accidental,” but when Tre’Michael was able to speak, Ledguies said, her son told her his friend “shot me on purpose.”
The older boy has been charged with aggrafated second-degree battery and juvenile in possession of a handgun. He has been placed in the Renaissance Home for Youth, and his identity is not being released because of his age.
Police have not said where the boy got the gun he used to shoot his friend.
The boy’s uncle said in a GoFundMe set up to help defray his considerable hospital costs that he “lost his right kidney, half of his left lung, and his intestines were shattered by the bullet.”
The uncle, Courtney Blake, said Tre’Michael was released from the hospital just before Christmas to continue his recovery at home.
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[Featured image: Tre’Michael/GoFundMe]
