Weston Halsne knew immediately that something had hit him during the shocking mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis last week.

Video above: 5th grader Weston Halsne describes Minneapolis shooting

“I think I got gunpowder on my neck,” Halsne told reporters minutes after the attack at Annunciation Catholic Church that killed two young students and injured more than a dozen other children, along with three adults.

Now his family says Weston’s injuries are worse than they first thought.

“Since the interview, it has been discovered that Weston will need surgery to remove a bullet fragment that is lodged in his neck, dangerously close to his carotid artery,” his aunt, Allison Hawes, said in a post on their GoFundMe page.

The clear-headed account from the fifth grader of the

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