Turn down for what?! This is why…
Brandon Reid was up late at his mother’s home, of course watching the TV coverage of the Miami Heat’s third championship win, when suddenly, a bullet zipped through the sliding glass door and into his head.
Reacting to the Heat win, Reid was getting up and rounding a couch to wake his mother to tell her about the victory and was then struck by the bullet.
The wounded 15-year-old boy fell to the ground but stood back up, puzzled to what just happened but knew it was serious when his mother and younger brother came to his aid and looked worried.
Huffington Post reports:
Brandon turned out to be the victim of what Miramar police say was celebratory gunfire following the Heat’s win just before midnight Thursday.
“I thought a rock hit me first,” Brandon recalled Saturday during a news conference at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital.
Thankfully the boy and his family are rejoicing as doctors successfully removed the bullet from the lower right side of Brandon’s head and his prognosis is good.
Brandon’s stepfather, Daryl Denson said:
“This young man here is a brave young man, a very strong young man. It’s a miracle that Brandon is still here with us, sitting up here in this hospital.”
And it is a miracle indeed. Pediatric neurosurgeon Dean Hertzler said Brandon was fortunate, because the bullet hit the thickest part of his skull, leaving a slight crack. Hertzler said he thinks the bullet may have been slowed down as it went through the glass door.
Check out more shocking details in the video above!
SOURCE: Huffington Post
