GALESBURG, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — A Galesburg teenager who was shot in the head with a BB gun in April 2021 has died.
Deven Free, who was shot while he and his friends were playing with a BB gun died at his home overnight Thursday, July 7, with his family by his side.
Free’s great aunt, Lisa Shirley making the announcement on the family’s Facebook page called Deven Strong. She wrote on the page following his death,
“I am saddened to write this message but you have all been on this long journey with us and it is with the heaviest heart that I tell all of our Deven Strong family that Deven lost the fight tonight!!!!!”
A CT scan indicated that the BB hit Free above his right eye and lodged itself in the back of his brain, leaving doctors unable to perform surgery due to it’s location.
Free had been in the hospital in Ann Arbor under intensive care for over two months before being taken off a ventilator and returning to his home in Galesburg in July of 2021.
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