Manteca Child Shot In Head Had Previous Brush With Death

MANTECA (CBS13) — A child is in critical condition after he and his brother were shot at a friend's home, Manteca Police said on Monday.

A 17-year-old who police say fired the gun is behind bars, facing attempted homicide charges. But if the boy neighbors identify as 11-year-old Hunter Davis dies, that could be moved to homicide.

Word spread quickly in the Manteca neighborhood about the boy that everyone seemed to know. Davis was shot once in the head early Sunday morning.

Britney Massa says Hunter was shot inside her home. She says her brother and friends were passing around a gun when one of them fired off two rounds—one hit the 11-year-old in the head, while another hit his older brother in the arm.

"I don't think it was accidentally," she said.

The 17-year-old suspect, a friend of Massa, is now behind bars.

"I think he was drunk and under the influence and didn't think there was really bullets in the gun," she said.

Those in the neighborhood say Hunter and his brothers would knock on doors asking for food or work so they could make money.

But Christine Curry also got to know Hunter's fighting spirit.

"It was a miracle he made it out of that," he said.

Last year, he woke up from a coma after being hit by a car. Now she and Hunter's friends now hope Hunter can pull through one more time.