NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE – A 12-year-old boy is talking out for the primary time after he says a teenager shot him at a college bus stop final Thursday morning after demanding his cellular phone.
The sixth grader mentioned he was ready for a bus to take him to Madison Middle School when the incident occurred.
In an unique interview with CBS4’s Peter D’Oench, the sufferer, Josue Camuse mentioned he had a message for the shooter, “I’d like to say it is not a good idea to shoot kids with guns. I think it is stupid to rob some kid for his phone.”
Camuse mentioned, “When I was in the ambulance and falling asleep, I tried my hardest not to fall asleep because I thought I was going to die if I fell asleep.”
“Me and my friend were waiting for a bus and then this guy comes up to us and asked me for my phone. I had a regular phone, but my friend, he had an iPhone. So, he went for my friend. The gun wasn’t loaded so he loaded it and said give me your phone and if you don’t I will do you for real. And then my friend kind of backed up so he went in front and he took out his gun and backed up and then he shot us.”
Camuse confirmed CBS4 his cellular phone and described his accidents.
“I am good,” he mentioned, “but the bullet is still in my leg. I can feel it move sometimes.” He mentioned the bullet struck his higher left thigh.
Camuse wants a crutch with a purpose to stroll. His left hand additionally has a bandage over it.
“I got hit right here and it came out right here and my arm was like this where the bullet came through here. The 2nd bullet missed me. The shot broke this bone here in my hand. It only hurts at night. My pinkie hurts. I am upset about what happened because I can’t use my left arm. I can only use the other one.”
Camuse mentioned he may have some surgical procedure for his left hand and he’s not certain when he’ll have the ability to return to highschool.
D’Oench spoke with Camuse along with his mom current at their house on Monday.
Camuse had been rushed to the Ryder Trauma Center final Thursday morning after Miami-Dade police mentioned each Camuse and 12-year-old Angel Campos have been shot simply earlier than 8 a.m. at the bus stop at N.W. tenth Ave. and 109th St.
A 16-year-old suspect, police mentioned was armed with two handguns and a rifle, was apprehended close by and is now being held in safe detention pending a listening to on September twenty ninth.
He faces 7 expenses together with tried felony homicide with a weapon which might carry a life sentence upon conviction and the suspect may very well be charged as an grownup. That choice with be made by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s workplace.
The suspect’s mom instructed a decide at a juvenile justice courtroom listening to on Zoom on Friday that her son didn’t should be charged as an grownup.
She twice mentioned her son was “incompetent” and he or she mentioned she had begged the courts and a decide for assist for her son, however was not capable of get him into any program that will assist him.
Angel Campos left Jackson Memorial Hospital late Friday afternoon and returned house.
His mom instructed D’Oench that her son didn’t wish to converse in regards to the taking pictures.
