The boy was standing outside with his parents on New Years Eve when he suddenly started bleeding from his nose and ears and collapsed.
He was taken to a hospital where it was discovered that he had been hit in the top of the head by a bullet that was lodged in his head.
I used to live in Venice and Inglewood, California as a teenager. I remember hearing all of the gunfire when the New Year rolled around. That's when you find out where the fully automatics were. At one point I was standing at the entrance to the apartment complex looking and listening to the gunfire and some guy next to me pulled out a handgun and started shooting into the air. It scared the crap out of me. I had no business being outside. I was only 13 and the whitest kid in the complex.