A 15-year-old boy is sharing his story for the first time after being shot three times on Chicago’s South Side over the weekend.
Family members say he was walking with his cousin to buy snacks when someone fired shots at them in the 6600 block of South Rhodes in the Woodlawn neighborhood Saturday night.
The teen spoke to NBC Chicago from his hospital bed about what happened that night and said someone was watching over him.
“The doctor had told me to breathe and breathe and you’re going to make it,” said Nehimiha, who didn’t want to use his last name. “He had said ‘you must have an angel on your side because other people that had got shot in the abdomen died.’”
The high school freshman said he was walking with his cousin to the gas station when they noticed a black SUV on their route.
“Me and my cousin didn’t think nothing about it and then next thing you know it, the windows rolled down, and then they had the gun aimed at my cousin—I pushed my cousin out of the way and then I had got shot and I took bullets for my cousin,” he said.
His mom Khianna Bronson heard those gunshots. Her son ran back home for help moments later.
“I saw the blood like leaking everywhere, everybody started screaming and all my other kids they started screaming, my mom she’s screaming crying,” said Bronson. “I knew I had to be calmed because I’m like, ‘oh my God, what do I do what do I do?’”
She immediately applied pressure on her son’s wounds before paramedics arrived.
“I’m kinda in disbelief talking about it now, still just like ‘oh my God,’ like having to replay that moment it’s just scary and then knowing the killer is still out there,” she said.
Bronson doesn’t know why the masked gunman targeted them and believes they were at the wrong place at the wrong time.
“He keeps asking me, ‘mom, why did they do this?’” she said. “I don’t know what to tell him, I don’t know what to say as a mother—how do you look at your child and say, ‘oh, they did it just because, I don’t know.’”
Nehimiha said he wants to be a doctor when he grows up, he loves playing video games, and his favorite comedian is Mike Epps, who lifted his spirits.
The two got a chance to FaceTime the other day with help from community activist and formal mayoral candidate Ja’Mal Green. Bronson connected with him on Facebook to share her son’s story.
“We’re going to do everything that we can to help this family we’re also going to put up a reward to lead to information on this as well,” said Green. “This should not be the reality of our young people and they shouldn’t have to deal with this trauma.”
Nehimiha said he’s now afraid to return home. His family is in need of financial assistance to relocate.
“I want all the teenagers to go outside without guns pointed at them, without people shooting at them,” said Nehimiha. “It will be a better place in Chicago if teenagers didn’t have no guns.”
His family started a GoFundMe to help with relocation and other immediate needs and support.
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