LANSING, (Mich.) WLNS — A Lansing father is grateful that his teenage daughter remains to be alive after she was shot thrice over the weekend.
The 15-year-old lady was critically wounded throughout a taking pictures that occurred at a celebration Saturday evening on the Carolina Flatz residence advanced on the south facet of town. The lady’s father, Antonio Cervantes, instructed 6 Information she’s doing “better” right this moment. In truth, she took her first steps for the reason that incident.
Antonio Cervantes (WLNS)
6 Information met with Cervantes right this moment to speak about his daughter, the group’s assist, and gun violence in Lansing.
He mentioned he dropped his daughter off on the residence advanced to go to a buddy. Earlier than lengthy, he was instructed she was on the hospital with gunshot wounds. Cervantes mentioned that was a tricky blow.
“She’s my baby, she’s like the last one, she goes to Lansing Technical, she’s a 10th grader. She works at Culver’s on South Pennsylvania. She’s a good kid,” Cervantes mentioned.
His daughter is at the moment on the College of Michigan Well being-Sparrow Hospital in Lansing.
Cervantes says he is simply completely satisfied his daughter remains to be right here and might’t consider she needed to undergo this.
“She didn’t deserve none of that, she didn’t deserve anything that happened to her, she was just there,” mentioned Cervantes.
Now, he is extra conscious of the difficulty of gun violence in Lansing after it hit so near house.
“You know you really don’t think about it until it happens to you,” mentioned Cervantes, “And since then it’s just like, it’s on my mind all the time, weighs heavy on me because it’s just so much. It’s sad that a person has to lose their life, and I’m just grateful, by the grace of God, that my daughter survived that.”
He says he hasn’t been battling alone, although, and that his neighbors have stepped as much as the plate.
“You have The Corner Spot on MLK with Charlie Dean, he helps, you have Willard Payne, he also has an advocate, when he was up here, there was 10 people up here,” mentioned Cervantes.
All of the assist helped him really feel a little bit of consolation in an uncertain time.
“That was a great feeling because when I came here I just felt lost, didn’t nobody talk to me,” Cervantes mentioned. “But then when I got here, they knew me, Willard knew me, we grew up together.”
18-year-old Josiah Cain was charged with assault with intent to homicide, on high of different prices concerning this taking pictures. His first listening to is scheduled for Aug. 1st.
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