A teenager miraculously recovered from a pellet gun shot to the head after a priest read the young man his last rites.
Two hours after the priest read Charles Quimby his last rites, the 19-year-old sat up, said hello and responded to doctors’ commands.
“I’m telling you, it was right after the priest did his thing,” his mother, Lauri Quimby, says. “I believe that that kind of played into it.”
But just before that, the family was less than hopeful.
William McCarty, Quimby’s friend, allegedly shot Quimby in the head with a pellet gun on Sunday afternoon.
Quimby’s father, Jade Goodridge, says he “doesn’t really know the facts of how it all went down,” but that he has been told it was an accident. He said X-rays at the hospital showed “a perfectly round object” in his son’s head and doctors assume it is a BB, and not a pellet as reported earlier by police.
Doctors told the family Quimby wouldn’t make it, and surgery was too risky.
But a little more than 24 hours after Charlie was shot, doctors removed his ventilator tube.
“It could affect his eyes and partial movement. It’s in his brain,” Goodridge says. “He’s doing a little better. He’s going to make it; so far everything is good.”
Please continue to pray for Quimby’s improved health.
