9 year old boy shot in superior township mi

Police later found the suspect hiding at a nearby gas station suffering from injuries consistent with being hit by a slingshot.

'He really is the one that I believe saved his sister's either life or from something seriously bad happening to her,' Grimshaw said at a news conference.

John Grimshaw called Burns' actions 'extraordinary' and said he likely prevented his sister from being harmed further during the May 10 incident. Margaret Burns, the mother of the two children, said her daughter was still processing what happened but was doing well.

'I said, 'It's alright, he can't hurt you now.'' 'I shot him in the head and chest and she starts running,' Burns recounted. He said he shot his sister's attacker twice - once with a green marble and once with a gravel rock. Owen Burns told NPR in an interview that he heard his sister scream and looked out the window to see her being attacked.īurns grabbed his slingshot and went outside. The boy covered the girl's mouth and attempted to kidnap her. The Michigan State Police said an 8-year-old girl in Alpena Township in Northern Michigan was hunting for mushrooms in her yard earlier this month when a 17-year-old boy appeared from the woods nearby. Owen Burns, a 13-year-old Michigan boy, is being credited with saving his sister's life after he fended off a would-be kidnapper by shooting him with a slingshot. Owen Burns, center, holds up the slingshot he used to fend off a boy who was attacking his sister earlier this month.

9 year old boy shot in superior township mi