This is a strange story. Apparently a 17-year-old male was shot while walking his dog in a “safe area” of San Ramon California.
Thankfully, the bullet entered his back, exited through his shoulder, and missed all major arteries. The link above has a video of the teen talking with a reporter. He was walking a dog at about 6:20pm on the street in front of an elementary school.
“She started speeding up, so I started speeding up a little bit,” he said. “I didn’t want to look behind and seem weird or anything. That’s when I heard the bang.”
“I heard a loud boom and at that time I didn’t know it was a gunshot,” the teen, who did not want to be identified, said. “I thought maybe she threw a projectile at me.”
He later figured out he was shot. Apparently, the shooter is known to the family, and the teen’s description helped the family identify the individual. The relationship between the shooter and the 17-year-old’s family isn’t disclosed.
A 40 year old woman has been arrested.
Thankfully, the teen appears to be making a strong recovery. I don’t know what caliber of pistol or ammunition used, but this story does highlight how ineffective pistols can be. If this had been a different situation where the shooter needed to protect her own life, she wouldn’t want the person she had shot to be as lightly injured as this teen was. My second observation is that the teen had an intuition that something was wrong but he didn’t want to “seem weird.” In this case, it would have been better to run away from an uncomfortable situation rather than be shot. Intuition is simply our subconscious picking up on small details that we may miss.
