A fifth-grader whose harrowing tale of survival during the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting — thanks to a pal who shielded him — went viral last week, walked away with a bullet fragment lodged in his neck.

Weston Halsne, 10, was attending morning mass at Annunciation Catholic School last Wednesday when more than 100 rounds of gunfire burst through a stained glass window. 5

In the chaos, Weston ducked beneath the pews like they’d practiced during lockdown drills and was shielded by his friend Victor, who was shot in the process but also survived.

After the shooter turned the gun on himself — ending his rampage, Weston recounted the horror to reporters in an interview that quickly went viral. 5

“I was like two seats away from the stained glass windows, so the shots were,

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