Michigan Boy Fighting for Life After Being Shot in the Head With BB Gun
On 4/28/21 at 4:37 AM EDT
A community in Michigan is raising funds and offering prayers for the family of a 12-year-old boy who is on life support after another child shot him in the head with a BB gun.
Deven Free, from Galesburg, was playing with other boys outside his home on Monday when the incident took place. The Kalamazoo County Sheriff s Office said the shooting appeared to be accidental, according to Michigan NBC affiliate Wood-TV.
Lisa Shirley, who is the boy s great-aunt, told the news outlet that the BB struck Deven just above his right eye and had lodged in the back of his brain. As he lay on the ground, he was initially able to talk but later became unresponsive.
Kalamazoo County boy critically injured after BB enters brain
Updated Apr 28, 2021;
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KALAMAZOO, MI Family of a 12-year-old Galesburg boy are asking for prayers after he was shot in head with a BB gun, leaving him critically injured.
Deven Free is at Bronson Children’s Hospital under heavy sedation as doctors try to control swelling in his brain.
Lisa Shirley, a great aunt to Deven, said he was playing at his family’s Galesburg home with two other boys late Monday afternoon, April 26, and they had BB guns.
At some point, one of Deven’s friends came running to the house. Deven’s mother was just headed outside with her two other children when the boy frantically said Deven had been shot and was bleeding.
Michigan nurses say they are forced to wear same mask all day, beg for help during COVID-19 pandemic
Michigan nurses said they are being forced to work under unsafe conditions.
DETROIT (FOX 2) - Michigan COVID-19 hospitalizations are up, and nurses are begging lawmakers for help. I don t know that I ve ever worked with sicker patients than these covid patients. They re just so fragile, said Luke Vandenberg, a nurse at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing.
Vandenberg and other nurses met with representatives Debbie Dingell and Rashida Tlaib on Thursday to share their concerns about their working conditions. We call it frontline because it s like wartime nursing, Vandenberg said. You re jumping from one crisis to the next and you re doing so with too few staff and often too few resources.
The following is a press release from the Michigan Nurses Association:
Lansing MI – In response to the surging cases of COVID-19 and a recent statement by the Michigan Chamber of Commerce calling for reducing protections for frontline workers, Jamie Brown, RN, a critical care nurse at Ascension Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo and president of the Michigan Nurses Association, provided the following statement:
“While Michigan became the focal point of a new outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, Michigan business executives brought forward proposals to remove guarantees of personal protective equipment for nurses and healthcare workers, remove mask mandates in restaurants, encourage in-person work for workers who could work from home, and weaken physical distancing requirements in workplaces. These proposals are dangerously irresponsible and could cost lives. If anything, we need more protective measures, not less.