MONTEGO BAY, St James – The police were yesterday investigating the circumstances in which a seven year-old Green Pond Primary School student was shot in the back of the neck Monday, without even knowing that he was injured.

The student, Luigi Johnson, of Capitol Heights in Green Pond, St James, was one of several children who “got a lift” in the back of a pick-up truck to school, located a short distance away.

According to Winnifred Hall-Clarke, the principal of the Green Pond Primary School, during the regular Monday morning devotion it was brought to her attention that young Johnson was bleeding from a wound to the back of his neck.

She said that at first teachers thought the boy was stabbed with a pencil by another student, and was taken to the school’s sick-bay.

The child’s mother, Kimisha Robinson, was summoned and upon her arrival accompanied her child to the Cornwall Regional Hospital, but even then no one was aware that he was shot.

An X-ray examination was done, and it was discovered that a bullet was lodged in the back of the child’s neck. Johnson’s mother, baffled as to how her son could have been shot, theorised that this could only happen between home and school.

However, Hall-Clarke, the school’s principal, equally astounded over the incident, ruled out the possibility of the youngster being shot while at school.

“I am still puzzled, we are still puzzled, nobody can say of a fact how it happened. I spoke to the vendors and none of them heard an explosion,” Hall-Clarke told the Observer.

Meanwhile, Robinson told the Observer that the bullet was not removed from Johnson as doctors explained that the wound was infected. However, she said the boy was given antibiotic, a head brace and the wound treated. He is scheduled to return to the hospital next Tuesday.

Yesterday, the young student, who was in a jovial mood, expressed shock as to how the bullet came to be lodged in his neck.