Family of boy injured by shotgun speaks

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A family is in tears tonight after their teenage boy had a hunting accident with a 12 gage shotgun.


Wednesday, the Bossier sheriff's office rushed to the 300 block of Country Forest in Haughton to save 15-year-old Christopher White.

Nbc 6 news reporter Karen Hopkins spoke with the injured boy's father who is grateful his son is alive tonight.

“I didn't want him to go. I wanted to go before he did. I was scared.” Randell White was scared his 15-year-old son Christopher, wouldn't make it, after a hunting accident with a 12 gage shotgun.

“I heard a gun shot and saw Chris on his knees.” Friend Jason Macon says they were hunting in the yard, when Christopher walked up, the boy with the shotgun was startled and accidentally shot his friend.

“One of the kids ran into the house and said call 911 my son has been shot."

“I know I’m mean to my brother sometimes. When he got shot, I felt I was going to lose him,” sister Shaiyena White says.

Thankfully Christopher survived, but the shotgun shell hit his groin. Dad says he might not be able to have children and will spend the next few weeks in the hospital. “He kept saying this was an accident.”

An accident, White says children and parents can learn from. “Kids need to be supervised at all times with firearms."

The boys say the shotgun came from another child's home.
"Don't think the safety is on, like many people do. He still got shot,” friend Matthew Miles says. “Be cautious, don't play around. Be serious when guns are around,” Macon says playing around, almost took Christopher’s life.

The boys were hunting without adult supervision. Louisiana law requires children under 16 to hunt with someone over 18. All people under 60-years-old are required to have a basic hunting license.

When the accident happened, the boys say they were hunting squirrel.
Squirrel season started October 3 and ends February 28th.

Visit this link for Hunter Education course information:

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/hunting/education/standardcourselisting/