A child injured in last month's shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis underwent surgery Wednesday to remove shrapnel from their neck.

Surgeons removed a bullet fragment from 10-year-old Weston Halsne's neck, which was embedded there after it was shot through nearby windows into the church.

Halsne was just feet from the windows when the shooting started. He told reporters the day of the shooting a friend shielded him from more gunfire.

“My friend Victor, like, saved me, though, because he laid on top of me,” Halsne said. “He’s really brave, and I hope he’s good in the hospital.”

Halsne didn't initially believe he was seriously injured in the aftermath of the shooting. But in a message on a fundraising page for Halsne's surgery, family members said doctors later discove

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