A 9-Year-Old Was Tragically Shot Four Times While Making TikTok Videos With His Siblings
Javonni Carson, a 9-year-old boy from Atlanta, was making TikTok videos with his siblings when he was shot four times. The incident occurred last week, during a drive-by shooting that injured several other people.
Carson was shot four times in a drive-by shooting while he was making TikTok videos with his siblings.
Carson’s mother Keyona told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that her son was supposed to enter into the fourth grade this year and that he had been filming videos for TikTok with his siblings when the incident occurred.
Medical providers attempted to save his life during surgery for injuries that happened to his leg. According to Keyona, he is expected to recover. “My other two kids were there, too, and they saw everything,” Keyona explained. “Someone just drove by and started shooting… My 11-year-old said he was trying to crawl over to [Javonni], but there were already so many people on the ground.”
Keyona went on to explain that Javonni’s father rushed her son to the hospital and that she “didn’t know anything until I got to the hospital. I just knew he’d been shot.”
Two adults, who remain alive, were involved in the incident and were also shot according to an incident report.
According to the incident report, the shots were fired into a crowd in a parking lot, causing people to run and hide behind cars.
The shooter who was driving in the car has not yet been identified. Family members have set up a GoFundMe page to pay for Javonni’s recovery. According to the page which has raised $8,749 out of its $20,000 goal, Javonni is an ” honor roll student at Deerwood Academy also a striving football player and rapper he is loved by many because [of] his character and personality.”
“Thank for all the support for my family from families that don’t even know us and I send my own personal condolences to the other families that also felt this pain that no family should have to face,” the GoFundMe concludes. “Pray and Love on your families because they can be taken away at any moment.”