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Pennsylvania newborn loses eye to hunter's stray bullet

The parents of a boy critically injured by a hunter's stray bullet are too happy he is alive to be angry at the shooter, a relative said.

By Frances Burns
A newborn hit by a hunter's stray bullet remained in critical but stable condition at a Pittsburgh hospital days later. (UPI Photo/bg/University of Missouri)
A newborn hit by a hunter's stray bullet remained in critical but stable condition at a Pittsburgh hospital days later. (UPI Photo/bg/University of Missouri) | License Photo

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- A newborn hit by a hunter's stray bullet remained in critical but stable condition at a Pittsburgh hospital days later.

A relative told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that Shayne Iverson will be blind in one eye. But Beth Sinclair, the boy's great-aunt, said Shayne would probably be dead if the bullet had not gone out through the eye socket instead of lodging in his brain.

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Shayne was only 6 days old when he was hit Thursday as his father, Jeremie, held him. The bullet fired by a hunter on a neighbor's property came through a window of the farmhouse in Saltsburg.

Sinclair said that Jeremie Iverson and his wife, Stefanie, have been spending all their time at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. The baby, listed in critical but stable condition, faces more surgery once swelling in his brain goes down.

Indiana County District Attorney Pat Dougherty is investigating the shooting. The hunter had an agricultural deer control permit.

Sinclair said the Iversons are not angry at the hunter.

"I would be mad, holding a grudge, but they're not. They're happy their baby is alive," she said.

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