MINNEAPOLIS — A bullet left a man partially paralyzed last month, and the victim says the shooter was a 14-year-old.
Amos Manneh has been going through physical therapy since he was shot in the neck on July 3 in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis.
“I was basically stalked down by three males,” he said. “They were trying to rob me, but I got away.”
Manneh says two of the men were his cousins, and that the shooter was a 14-year-old friend of theirs.
Minneapolis police tell WCCO a juvenile has been charged with assault. Manneh says it’s the 14-year-old, but he’s not happy with it.
“They’re charging the kid first-degree assault when he shot me in my neck,” Manneh said. “This is attempted murder.”
Court records aren’t public because the case involves a juvenile, but Manneh says prosecutors have been keeping him updated.
“His public defender argued for ankle home monitor and they denied that thankfully, but what they told me is they’re doing a mental health evaluation on him, and then probation will be talking with him, so the kid’s going to get out on probation it sounds like,” Manneh said. “It’s crazy.”