The California teenage boy caught in the Spirit Halloween mass śh́óóting thought he was in a movie as the bullet tore straight through his body.
Among the six survivors from the tragic śh́óóting inside the Fairfield Spirit Halloween store at the Solano Town Center on October 30 was a 16-year-old boy.
A 31-year-old pregnant mother of four was also killed.
“I felt the bullet wound; it was like a movie, ’cause I look at it and everything just zoomed into my hand and my hands just shaking,” the boy recalled to KRON 4.
“Then I just start laying on my back Jesus, Jesus, Jesus… I got real scared,” he added on.
The teen then recounted a man coming to offer comfort and encouraging him to continue calling out to Jesus.
When police and paramedics came to the scene, the injured teen asked officers about the condition of the pregnant woman, who was lying nearby. Despite his injuries he repeatedly asked officers, “Is she breathing… forget about me… go check on her.”
The boy’s mother also offered forgiveness towards the šhσσtєr saying, “I forgive him of his actions because his village failed him.”
The person who allegedly conducted the śh́óóting was a 17-year-old boy named Monte Smith. Smith was arrested by police and is being charged with eight felony offenses alongside multiple gun enhancements, according to the Solano County District Attorney’s Office.
He was also previously arrested in connection to a 2025 śh́óóting that occurred at a local high school parking lot.
One victim killed was a pregnant woman named Constance Hages, who was 13 weeks pregnant. Since the pregnancy progressed beyond the embryonic stage, prosecutors are able to pursue another murder charge for the unborn child.
A GoFundMe created by her niece has already raised nearly $11,000 of its $12,000 goal.
Smith is currently being at a juvenile detention center and prosecutors are attempting to try the suspect as an adult.
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