ROY - A Roy teenager was in critical but stable condition Friday, the day after he was accidentally shot.
Roy police Sgt. Shawn O’Malley said the 15-year-old boy suffered a gunshot wound in the face Thursday afternoon in a residence near 4050 West and 5700 South.
The boy was rushed to McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden and then flown to Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City, where he was expected to survive.
O’Malley confirmed that the shooting appeared to have been an accident. However, noting that the circumstances of the shooting remained under investigation, O’Malley would not identity the victim. Neither would he say whether the shot was fired by the boy or someone else, or say what kind of firearm was involved.
The last year of my life has been full of love and loss. There are four people I know who have departed from this life, a few of them unexpected. Along the way, death has never really bothered me. I have always accepted it as part of The Plan.
But today is different ...
Something has attached to me and it will not let go. Damien has not passed from this life (as far as I know), but he came close. In a moment of teenage stupidity a gun fired and demolished his face.
The tragedy of a life so young.
Perhaps I never really understood how much teachers care about their students (even the ornery teachers). These youngsters come into your life and teach you many valuable lessons. Hopefully somewhere along the way, we as teachers teach them something too.
Each semester I experience loss. Sometimes it is a joyful goodbye and sometimes I wish they would stay a little longer. But no matter who it is, there is something to be learned from each student.
The other day one of my seniors asked if I was going to be at yearbook signing. He is the last person I would have expected. In fact I kicked him out of my class his junior year. He and his mom begged to get him back in, along with some other interesting strain of events.
I hope for good things from him.
The end of the school year brings another kind of loss. Many will move on and never look back, others will live in high school for a few more years, and still others will eventually find their way back into the halls that changed their lives in some type of career. Each group brings a new dynamic and each time we, as teachers, experience a kind of loss as the students take a part of us, knowingly or not, out into the strange new world with them.
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
The tragedy of a life so young.
Perhaps I never really understood how much teachers care about their students (even the ornery teachers). These youngsters come into your life and teach you many valuable lessons. Hopefully somewhere along the way, we as teachers teach them something too.
Each semester I experience loss. Sometimes it is a joyful goodbye and sometimes I wish they would stay a little longer. But no matter who it is, there is something to be learned from each student.
The other day one of my seniors asked if I was going to be at yearbook signing. He is the last person I would have expected. In fact I kicked him out of my class his junior year. He and his mom begged to get him back in, along with some other interesting strain of events.
I hope for good things from him.
The end of the school year brings another kind of loss. Many will move on and never look back, others will live in high school for a few more years, and still others will eventually find their way back into the halls that changed their lives in some type of career. Each group brings a new dynamic and each time we, as teachers, experience a kind of loss as the students take a part of us, knowingly or not, out into the strange new world with them.
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
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