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Edward Helmore in New York

Doctors find bullet fragment in neck of 10-year-old Minnesota school shooting survivor

A girl places a card outside Annunciation Catholic Church before mass on Sunday after the school shooting in Minneapolis on 27 August.
Shrapnel was found in neck of Weston Halsne, 10, who survived the Minneapolis school shooting on 27 August. Photograph: Ellen Schmidt/AP

Doctors have found a bullet fragment lodged perilously close to the carotid artery in the neck of a 10-year-old boy who narrowly survived the mass shooting in Minneapolis last week after a friend shielded him from the gunfire.

Fifth-grader Weston Halsne recounted running under a pew and covering his head while shots fired by the alleged shooter, Robin Westman, came through the stained-glass windows during the shooting at Annunciation Catholic school last Wednesday. He described how his friend Victor Greenawalt had jumped on top of him to shield him.

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