Family of 10-year-old boy shot in the head in says ‘he’s going to fight through this’
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) A 10-year-old boy who was shot in the head in Minneapolis continues to show signs that he’s a fighter.
Ladavionne Garrett Jr. was in the back seat of his parents’ car last Friday afternoon near North 34th and Morgan avenues when he was struck.
Outside North Memorial Health hospital, Garrett’s family including mother Dorice Jackson and father Ladavionne Garrett stands watch over a hospital room where their precious son is fighting for his life.
“He didn’t deserve this I can tell you that,” Garrett said. “I ain’t never pictured this ever in my life.”
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Sharing quiet sympathy and tears, a few dozen people gathered Saturday on the lawn outside a hospital in a vigil for a young boy shot Friday night in Minneapolis.
Ladavionne Garrett Jr. was shot while riding in a vehicle by someone outside the vehicle in the 3400 block of N. Morgan Avenue. The vehicle s driver took him to North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale, where he was reported in very critical condition, police said Friday.
Ladavionne was the second child in a week injured by gunfire in a city that has seen an increase in violent crime over the last year. On Monday, an infant suffered bullet fragment injuries to his hands in a shooting that also wounded two adults. The victims in that shooting were also in a car that someone shot into.