For the third time in two weeks, a teenager was shot in Dayton.
On Saturday, Dayton police and medics were dispatched to the 2500 block of Greenbrier Drive for a reported shooting after 6:50 p.m.
News Center 7′s Malik Patterson spoke with the 17-year-old victim Monday about what happened.
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“I just want to say that I’m blessed to be alive,” Josiah Cotton said.
Cotton is a 17-year-old Senior at Trotwood Madison High School.
He said he was going to a friend’s house Saturday before he was shot.
“I didn’t see them when they shot me. It was nighttime,” Cotton said.
Neighbors called 911 after hearing the gunshots and Cotton calling for help.
“We have no clue who got shot, we just heard 6 to 7. We don’t know what it was we just hit the floor,” the 911 caller said.
Cotton was transported to Miami Valley Hospital after a bullet hit him in his backside.
Even though the shooting happened two days ago, he is trying to be active by walking throughout his neighborhood.