A Stephan F. Austin football player was shot in the forehead by a stray bullet at a house party on Sunday night and survived!
After the shooting, LaCoryien Washington was rushed to a Fort Worth hospital where nurses called the freshman a miracle.
LaCoryien’s family spoke out and expressed how grateful they are during this incident.
via KTRE 9:
“I’m just blessed that he’s alive,” brother Kamren Washington told Dallas TV Station KDFW. “Made it through. He’s strong.”
Kamren was with his older brother around 1 a.m. Sunday morning at a Halloween party. According to Kamren, the two were leaving when his brother was shot.
“We were walking to the car,” Kamren said. “They shot and then I thought he was just ducking, then I looked and he was shot.”
Kamren had to call his mother and let her know the news.
“He said that he was shot in the head and it wasn’t a very great feeling,” mother Kimberly Crawford said.
Washington was rushed JPS Hospital, where doctors learned the bullet had traveled to the right side of his skull. Word traveled fast to his coaches and teammates, both at SFA and back home, where he recently graduated from Mansfield Summit High School.
Fort Worth Police are not calling the shooting a drive-by but say they don’t yet know the motive or have any good leads. Police add there was nothing bad happening at the party. No one was mad or fighting; there was no reason for any of the high school or college students there to have been targeted.
“It’s scary,” Crawford said. “[I] Just want them to be off the streets because I don’t want anyone else to get hurt.”
LaCoryien also spoke on the shooting and how fortunate he is to be alive.
We’re so happy this story has a happy ending.
LaCoryien is expected to fully recover from his injuries.
As for the shooting, police say there was a car that sat in a nearby parking lot with its lights on from 10:30 p.m. until right after shots were fired. However, police are not going so far as to say that that is a suspect vehicle.
The investigation is still ongoing.
