See the Moment an NYC 8-Year-Old Was Shot in the Shoulder by a Stray Bullet
- Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:49am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Eight-year-old Armando Bigio was just perusing the chips section at a Bronx bodega on Tuesday when he began spilling blood onto the ground. Why? He had just been shot by a stray bullet.
“All of a sudden, we heard a shot,” the boy’s mother, Ely Flores, 31, told the New York Daily News. “I called out for my son. … I was screaming hysterically.”
Bigio, who calmly grabbed his shoulder and still managed to walk a little after the injury, yelled to let Flores know he was okay. In fact, he later apologized for getting blood on the floor.
“I heard screaming,” Mahmood Abdulrub, the store manager, told the Daily News. “The mom cried for her son. I see this cute little boy walking over slowly – holding his left shoulder.”
Abdulrub, who sat the boy down and tried to stop the bleeding, said “He was so polite.”
“He looked up at me with his big googly eyes and said, ‘Thank you, sir.’”
“He kept telling me he had to spit up blood,” Abdulrub explained. “He was worried about spitting blood on my floor. I kept telling him not to worry about it. … It was crazy. This little boy had just been shot and he still remembered his manners.”
The entire incident was caught on a security camera. It shows Bigio and his mother walking into the store, the young boy wandering over to the chips section and then the moment the bullet hit him.
You can watch it unfold below:
No information was available on the shooter. Bigio is currently being treated for a punctured lung, a fractured rib and an injured spinal cord, his mother told the Daily News.
(H/T: Gawker)
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Comments (75)
ed0315
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 1:37pmI am surprised chunky even felt it. Go have another Big Mac kid, looks like you could use another.
Report Post »advnet
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 1:54pmYou are pathetic. So are you saying that it makes it ok for the kid to be shot just because he is over weight? One thing for sure they could give you a full lobotomy and you would not lose an ounce of weight.
Report Post »NikkiM
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:06pmWTH is them matter with you? This is a little boy your ignorant mouth is ranting about. Someone needs to do you a favor and give you a high five, in the face with a chair.
Report Post »SidneyDave
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:12pmMaybe if you get shot someone will think you deserve it for being insensitive.
Report Post »WalkTheLine78
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:18pmYou make me sick! What kind of a person would say something like that?! Psycho!
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:23pmED0315…
What the H*LL is wrong with you???
You are making fun of a seriously injured child, for being chubby. He’s in the hospital, fighting for his life.
He has a punctured lung, a fractured rib, spinal cord damage, and a bullet hole in his shoulder, and all you do is make fun of him for being chubby.
Would you have been as brave, calm, and polite as this little boy, if the same thing had happened to you? I think not.
Report Post »dtrent387
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 2:55pm@EDO315 Ridiculous. a little boy gets shot and that’s the first thing that pops into your pea sized brain. WOW!!! What should be your first thought it what if that was my child. you’re pathetic
Report Post »Airynn
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 3:02pmED0315- you should be kicked off of the Blaze for a post like this. You’re a disgrace.
Report Post »Lib Whisperer
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 3:30pmAre you trying to say (however inelegantly) that were he slightly smaller, the bullet would’ve missed?
Report Post »Jimbo65
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 3:53pmFrom the fact the boy is polite and well raised, I can assume he isn’t related to you.
Report Post »Mr.Truth
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 4:35pmWhat a pile of hot vomit you are! How could you say something like that! You’ve gotta be a liberal!
Report Post »ET43
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 5:00pmI think that was just gods way of telling him he didn’t really need another bag of Funyuns.
Report Post »spasm
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 5:58pmDon’t Feed The Trolls!! Banish them into non-existence where they belong. This internet tough guy is just trying to get attention…
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:26pmET43…
Report Post »You are just as disgusting as ED0315. Probably the same person using different user names.
God will get you.
geonj
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:28pm@ edo315
Report Post »hope a stray bullet finds it’s way into your fat head.
RockstarRepublic
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 6:55pmBut what many of you fail to realize, and I’m not being insensitive about this… is that tubby wouldnt have been shot if he wasnt over by the door pawing at a wall of potato chips. The mother might have well shot the kid herself if she let him get that morbidly obese (which need I remind people leads to yes, even fatalities among children as well as adults).
Hopefully the kid is ok and the mother learns to take care of her kid properly.
Report Post »mmabri
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:57pm@RockstarRepublic – You know it could be plain genetics and not what the kid eats. His mom seems to have some weight issues so I’m guessing dad does to, and those weight issues could be passed on to their children genetically.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:24pmAnd fact is, if he hadn’t been browsing in the CHIPS SECTION, he wouldn’t have been shot! God works in mysterious ways. This was a warning from beyond to him, stay away from the chips!
Report Post »daveinpa
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:31pmEDO315… one word… Karma. Think about it. Armando, I hope you pull through this ordeal ok and are well again. I pray for your health and I’m very sorry that this has happened to you.
Report Post »bankerpapaw
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:17pmIf that kid was yours, you would be whistling another tune. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Report Post »NEWSTALKER
Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:17amSo, where is Micheal Bloomberg on this? Everyone should be carrying, so that criminals get what they deserve. Ya, I probably would have pulled my gun out and shot the person that was escaping the drive-by-shooting, but only if appeared deliberate though. hey Michael, do you think the police can protect your citizens? Nah, but you do not care about them, nor the facts concerning illegal guns in possession of criminals. You would rather put a nurse and a MARINE in prison for 3 years. Michael Bloomberg, you sir, are the criminal.
Report Post »MittensKittens
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 1:25pmI think every New Yorker should wear a Chuck SHumer body vest and see what it feels like to take around. Poor kid. So much for gun control.
Report Post »RabidPatriot
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 1:57pmAll that gun control in NYC is really effective (sarcasm). Dense urban living turns its inhabitants into stressed out, short fused people. Add to it decades of liberal policies that create a welfare state and poor education. What it does is create a highly condensed zoo of human savages. That is why the liberal elites want gun control. They don’t want to be shot in the street by the savages they created.
Report Post »sasquatch08
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 3:01pm@RABIDPATRIOT
Or they want to be the ones doing the shooting…
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 1:13pmPoor little guy! Prayers for a swift recovery. I hope they are able to find the shooter for justice sake.
Report Post »JBaer
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 5:04pmAmen!
Report Post »shogun459
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 12:45pmPrayers for the family.
Report Post »Praise for a mother that is raising such a young man.
jdog777
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 11:47amThis is impossible…. NYC has some of the most aggressive and effective gun laws in the nation.
Report Post »1proudAmerican
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 12:08pmGood one. The laws sure don’t protect the law-abiding citizens!
Report Post »The Giver
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 11:43amThat bullet could have hit his heart. I hope communities get together and take back the streets. We the people don’t have to wait for someone else to do it. Legalize drugs and reduce violence. Take the profit out of the hands of criminals.
Report Post »WatchingThePuppetShow
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 1:10pmOhhhh yeah legalizing drugs is the answer…
Like my daddy use to say ‘you can’t cure stupid!’
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 1:51pmWhat is stupid is trying to legislate your own brand of morality upon everyone else and then acting surprised when black markets and violence take the place of the corner drug store or apothecary. I don’t use any drugs outside of those accepted as legal (caffeine, alcohol, and some believe sugar), but I don’t think that you should put a person in prison to be taken care of on the taxpayer dime where he/she can be turned from a functional drug user (akin to functioning alcoholics) into a hardened criminal who doesn’t care about anyone else anymore because everyone else though they had it within their power to take from him years of his life.
Now, if a person commits violence or uses force upon another person, then let the law deal with it. Whether or not the person committed such acts under the influence. There should be no difference between a drunk crossing into oncoming traffic and killing a family and someone who is suicidal doing it on purpose. But to say that all people who use drugs are killers and criminals is a fraudulent practice that has made us the number one jailor in the world. Not even China has more prisoners and they will jail you for having 2 children or speaking out against the gov’t. Not to mention holding an unapproved church service.
The truly ignorant never know that they are ignorant. So I guess we can‘t fix you because you’ll never acknowledge that you are broken.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 1:53pm@ The Giver, If I recall correctly, that book was pretty good. I believe that I was in 4th or 5th grade when I read it and it is an amazing and quite poignant piece of work.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 11:26amprayers for the little guy. blaze where is the wa state story of the little 8 year old girl shot in the classroom
Report Post »DrLar
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 11:06amWhat, the bullet didn’t come from Mexico? if it travels several miles accross the border why it wouldn’t go all the way to NYC?
Report Post »Marsh626
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:45amI’m constantly amazed by how ineffective bullets are against the human body. I saw footage of a small kid getting shot with an M4 right to the center of his chest and he was still able to walk around and cry as if he was just stung by a bee. The soldiers who accidentally shot him just sat him down and put bandages on his entry and exit wounds and he survived just fine. I wouldn’t be survived if this kid got shot with 9mm ball ammo. 9mm and 5.56mm ball ammo needs to go. It’s way too weak.
Report Post »IMAWAKENOW
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 3:38pmReally,,,,, that is what you got from this story???? We need larger calibur guns so children that get shot with stray bullets die rather than recover??????
Report Post »GotLead
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 5:33pmDo you know why the military uses those rounds? The point is to take the soldier out of battle, get shot with two 5.56 bullets and youre not gonna want to be fighting much longer. Now it takes 2 men to get the guy out of the battle, now theres 3 men out of the battle and that guy who was taken out now needs to be treated how many men need to treat his wounds? Take men out of battle=winning the battle. If you were to get shot with two 7.62 the chance of you dying is high and when you die on the battle field nobody has to get you off the battle field.
Report Post »nappy
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:35am“An NYC”? Really Blaze?
Report Post »eifer
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:25amJesus… poor kid. But yeah, judging by the demographics, not a safe place to be.
Report Post »Diego Roswell
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:12amThe liberal media grabs ahold of stories like this to further their anti-gun agenda. They do not see any logic in arresting, convicting and incarcerating the criminals, no, they find religious fervor in banning, regulating and controlling free Americans.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:07amBest wishes to the kid. To have such manners, in NYC, is almost unheard of nowadays, especially after getting shot. Sounds like a good kid.
Report Post »supressorgrid
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:02amHe can now become a rap singer.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:44amLittle kids are tough as nails. Speedy recovery.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:30amYou are a brave and good boy! Hang in there! Notice how all the bad people or elite have the guns in NYC. By design. Case in point, the OWS guy in the just published blaze story who brought a loaded gun to court with him. OWS=bad people
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:27amLucky for him he was not following Moochelle’s eating healthy plan.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:20am.
Report Post »Good thing he was a little fatty, slowed the bullet down. If FLOTUS had gotten a hold of him and skinned him up, he’d probably be dead………….
salvawhoray
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:14amhis fat saved him.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:09amBest wishes to the little guy – Get Well Soon!. And Well Done to his family. You’re raising a polite, caring young man. I wish we had more kids & parents like them in this country.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:06amPoor kid, he’s actually lucky. I hope he’s OK, looks like a brave little guy.
Report Post »goahead.makemyday
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:05amHere we see another case of the effectiveness of Mayor Bloominidiot’s gun ban. If gun bans like these truly worked this kid would never have been shot. The thing is they don’t work a criminal who gets a gun is still a criminal but if a law abiding citizen who gets a gun to protect himself gets hit with felonies. If a guy who knows he‘ll get life if he’s caught won’t care about another forty years added to his sentence.
Report Post »LouC57
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:29amGOAHEAD….absolutely 100000% correct! Arm yourselves, learn to use your weapon. And vote that idiot out of office!
Report Post »A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 1:18pmThe criminal underground has an amazing assortment of lethal weapons all under the radar. Always did, always will.
Report Post »Quasimofo
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:00amI see NYC strict gun laws are working… NOT.
Report Post »guntotinsquaw
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:05amThat’s what I was thinking..maybe they got the city wrong in the story and it‘s really one of those southern guntotin’ towns.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:57amYes, it is most oftentimes the innocent bystanders that are hit by these “gang bangers” uncontrolled shootings!!! Very impressed with this young boys manners and he his fortitude is top notch too! Get well soon “trooper”!
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:54amLook at the individuals hanging around the store. that’ll tell you everything.
Report Post »bassist237
Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:00amThank you.
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