One of the two teens shot during a house party in the Kings Crossing subdivision has been released from the hospital.
KRIS 6 News spoke with Jessie Briseno Monday afternoon. She said her 16-year-old son, Jaden Lopez, was discharged from the hospital around lunchtime Monday and taken to physical therapy, where therapists taught him how to walk with crutches.
One of the shooting victims of Saturday’s house party released from hospital
Lopez was one of two teens shot at a house party on the 7800 block of Beauvais Drive. According to Briseno, the party was hosted for the Veterans Memorial High School cheer squad and their close friends. In the end, students from schools across the city showed up.
Briseno said she permitted her son to attend the party with his girlfriend from 9 p.m. to midnight. Around 11:45 p.m., gunfire erupted. Jaden told his mother when he heard the first gunshot, he thought it was a glass that had shattered. When he looked across the pool, he saw fire coming from a gun.
Briseno said her son tried to run off with his girlfriend, but when he grabbed her, he fell and realized he had been shot in the foot. Briseno said the bullet hit the top of Jaden’s foot, shifted sideways, and was lodged in the back of his ankle…