CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A 15-year-old girl who was shot after school Wednesday has been released from the hospital and is talking to NewsChannel 36 about what happened.
Amari Boyd said she and several East Mecklenburg High School students went to see a fight after school, but they didn't expect to see a gun.
The teen said she was shot in the leg as two rival gangs fought in the parking lot of BJ's Wholesale Club on Independence Boulevard.
"One of the dudes from the other gang got beat up really bad and his friend came to save him, so he jumped the curb and tried to hit the dude that beat him up really bad, and he grabbed the gun from the car and started shooting and I was the one who got hit," Boyd said.
Boyd was rushed to Carolinas Medical Center. She is now at home, hobbling around on crutches.
"They say I can start walking but I need to take it easy. ... I just got shot. I never thought I'd get shot. It came in right here, and it angled and came out right there," Boyd said, showing her wound.
The bullet was meant for someone else.
"I saw him pointing the gun and just shooting, just shooting," she said.
Boyd says she was part of a large crowd of East Mecklenburg students who had come to watch two rival gangs fight.
"I was going to get behind the tree and when I went, he shot me in the leg," Boyd said.
At first, her mother had no idea how bad it was.
"They just said shot. I don't know if she's dead, alive," said Boyd's mother, Aisha. "I just thank God that I saw her alive."
Boyd is hoping to be back in school on Monday. Her mother says she won't allow her daughter to walk home from school anymore. She plans to pick her up instead.
Gabriel Cisneros, 19, Jonathan Daniel Reyes, 17, and Daniel Hernandez Jiminez, 20, were arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and assault with a deadly weapon.
