DENVER — A father says a teenager shot him four times after he picked up his fourth grader from Rocky Mountain Prep Southwest in Denver on Oct. 4.
The Denver Police Department said they have arrested a teen in connection with the shooting.
Angelo Duran said he was shot in the lung, bladder, colon and spleen. Duran said there's still a bullet inside his spine, and that has made him paralyzed.
While recovering from gunshot wounds, he feels compassion for the young person who shot him.
"I am not mad at him. I understand he is lost," he said.
On Oct. 4, Duran said, he was picking up his 9-year-old son from elementary school near Kentucky Avenue and Federal Boulevard. His son hopped in the car, and then, Duran said, he saw a kid with a gun.
"He was walking on school grounds with that gun. I was literally one car away from the main office of my son's school," Duran said.
According to Duran, the teenager threatened another kid with a gun, and then ran away. That's when Duran decided to chase him.
"I just couldn't let him get away. I had this feeling I had to intervene," Duran said.
The kid fired a gun down the street from families. Duran's fourth-grade son heard the shots from the car.
"He ran into the Pizza Hut and called his mom and told her I had been shot," Duran said.
Duran's life won't be the same. With years of therapy ahead, he's choosing not to live in anger.
"I realized I couldn't regret what I had done. I tried to intervene and keep my school safe, my son's school safe," he said.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help the family.
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