The mother of Rasheek Long Lynch, the 12-year-old boy who police said accidently shot himself in the head while visiting a friend's house in St. Paul, Minnesota, wants answers.

Police said the shooting happened on Aug. 11 at about 1:30 a.m. off Congress Street West and Stryker Avenue, just south of Downtown in the Riverview neighborhood. Rasheek Long Lynch was rushed to Regions Hospital.

"They said my son wasn't going to make it overnight," mother Kierra Lynch said.

When Kierra Lynch got the call, she and her mother were hours away in Lafayette, Indiana.

"He was not home with his dad, he was at a friend's house," she said.

Kierra Lynch said her son is now out of critical condition, with a long road of rehabilitation ahead.

Investigators do not know who the gun belongs to, or how

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