A&M Consolidated basketball participant’s lung pierced by bullet, anticipated to make a full restoration

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – The sufferer of Tuesday’s Faculty Station taking pictures is in vital situation however is anticipated to make a full restoration, in response to his household after talking with docs at St. Joseph Well being.

Kaden Lewis was enjoying basketball at John Crompton Park like he usually does when he was shot within the shoulder, his mother and father stated. He was taken to the hospital the place docs found the bullet went by way of his lung. The 16-year-old stays in vital situation however is anticipated to outlive.

Information 3′s Rusty Surette met Tuesday afternoon together with his household outdoors the hospital together with his father, Clifton Lewis, his mom, Tameka Day, and his siblings Denim Day and Chanquis Robertson. They stated Lewis was “in the precise place on the fallacious time.” Kaden is usually on the park engaged on his basketball abilities and hanging with pals.

On Tuesday, whereas he was enjoying, he was hit by a bullet fired from a distance.

“He wasn’t doing medicine or something like that like some folks have speculated,” stated his father, Clifton. “I’ve raised these youngsters to avoid stuff like that. He was there to enhance himself. He had nothing to do with the taking pictures.”

Police on Tuesday stated the gunfire was associated to a social media spat involving two different males within the space.

Jairus Johnson, 21, was arrested after an argument over his ex-girlfriend on Twitter led him to shoot on the crowd within the park. Lewis’s mother and father stress their son had nothing to do with the argument or the taking pictures.

Whereas assembly with the household Tuesday afternoon, Kaden referred to as his mother and father from his hospital mattress. When he was requested how he’s doing, he responded, “Good.”

Kaden is a basketball participant at A&M Consolidated Excessive College and goes to be a junior this faculty 12 months. Medical doctors instructed the household the gunfire damage shouldn’t affect his capacity to play basketball.

What the household is now asking for is prayers and continued help from the neighborhood.

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