“At that point, it was just a life-changing experience, because an inch in either direction, it could have been my son’s life,” Gregory said, adding that her son has had trouble sleeping since the incident.Ĭoming up tonight at 10/11: 'A mom's worst nightmare.'Ī local family is shaken after a stray bullet narrowly misses a teen boy's head while he's playing video games in his bedroom. It was from a 9 mm handgun, according to the report. “I immediately noticed a hole in his curtain that was the size of a bullet, so I pulled the curtain back and I noticed there was a hole through all four panes of glass in his window,” she recalled.Īn investigation revealed the 17-year-old’s window had been shot by a stray bullet.Ī police report obtained by 12 News reveals detectives questioned their next door neighbor, who told officers he had mistakenly shot the window with his airsoft gun.īut the bullet, which officers found lodged inside the headrest of the chair Mangum was sitting in, was not from a pellet gun. (WPRI) ─ An East Providence teen is lucky to be alive after he was nearly hit by a stray bullet while in his bedroom earlier this week.Ĭara Gregory tells 12 News her son, Shawn Mangum, was playing video games Monday night when his glass window shattered.