- April 18, 2024
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A 15-year-old Bunnell resident was shot in the arm in Palm Coast the night of June 4. The teen said the shooting was accidental.
Deputies were called out to AdventHealth Palm Coast at 11:10 p.m. because the victim had been brought there by his mother. The teen had been shot in his upper left bicep with a small caliber firearm, according to an FCSO case report. The injury was through-and-through.
The mother, speaking with a deputy outside the teen's hospital room, said her son had called her and said he'd been shot while out walking with friends off Rolling Sands Drive.
The teen was "alert and on his cellphone" when deputies arrived at his room in the ER to speak with him, according to the case report.
He said he'd been out walking with his friend and another young man, whom he didn't know. The unfamiliar youth "was messing around with the hammer on a brownish colored revolver behind him and the gun accidentally discharged and struck his left arm," according to a deputy's summary of the victim's account. The young man with the gun took off running, the victim said.
The victim "was uncooperative during the investigation and did not provide any details," according to the case report, and the teen and his mother "did not wish to pursue the matter any further."
Deputies also spoke with the victim's friend and the friend's family members, who said the friend and the friend's brother had run back to their house to get bandages after the shooting.
The friend's family was also "uncooperative with the investigation," a deputy wrote in the case report. The deputy noted two bloody Band-Aids, and droplets of blood, in the family's driveway.
A Sheriff's Office Commander's Report entry on the case states, "Conflicting stories were given by multiple parties and the victim was uncooperative. Follow up required."
