A horrific video has depicted the moments earlier a h2o weapon crippled turned tragic erstwhile a Texas teen fell from the backmost of a moving Jeep.
Isaac Leal, 17, was moving astir with different teen earlier hopping connected the backmost of a classmate's car while playing 'senior assassins' - a fashionable precocious schoolhouse contented wherever kids person to drawback their pals and sprout them with h2o guns.
But Leal's guiltless amusive turned into a nightmare connected April 20. New video showed the Jeep backing retired of a driveway, portion helium stood connected the backmost bumper, holding onto the car.
Wearing a reddish shirt, Leal was seen holding onto his h2o weapon erstwhile the Jeep began to thrust off. The car past accelerated down the road, arsenic the teen flashed 1 limb successful the air.
Leal's father, Jose, said successful an interrogation with CBS News that the Jeep's driver, who has yet to beryllium identified, drove with his lad connected the backmost for 5 minutes.
He added that the Jeep took six turns and Leal was 'holding connected for his life.'
When the Jeep abruptly deed a dip successful the road, Leal was thrown from the backmost of the conveyance and fell into the road, knocking him unconscious.
Terrifying images showed passersby and archetypal responders huddled astir the boy's body, which was sprawled successful the halfway of a residential thoroughfare successful Arlington, Texas.
Leal - a beloved prima shot subordinate successful schoolhouse - was rushed to infirmary with life-threatening caput injuries and is inactive connected beingness support, 19 days later.
Isaac Leal, 17, is seen successful red, lasting connected the car's bumper and holding connected to the conveyance with 1 hand, with a greenish h2o weapon successful the other
Shocking video footage depicted the moments earlier Leal, 17, fell disconnected the backmost of a Jeep and deed his head
Leal's parent said helium was knocked unconscious, and exigency services responded aft helium fell disconnected the backmost of the car
Police were notified of the incidental connected May 3 aft Leal's parents filed a report. They were not dispatched to the country due to the fact that the archetypal telephone was believed to person been a postulation incident.
The Arlington Police Department issued a connection saying their postulation part would beryllium starring an probe into the incident.
'In reviewing calls for work from the day the incidental occurred, April 20, we learned that EMS responded to the mishap tract for what was described arsenic an unconscious person,' the constabulary said successful a statement.
'PD, however, was ne'er dispatched and we were not notified that Mr. Leal's injuries stemmed from a postulation incidental until we spoke with his household this past weekend.'
The constabulary added that, based connected archetypal evidence, it appeared that the incidental was an accident.
Leal's parents are pushing for justness aft the calamity that near their prima shot subordinate connected beingness support.
Leal's begetter told CBS News that his lad was holding onto the backmost of the car for 5 minutes
The teen is seen here, holding connected to the backmost of the Jeep earlier calamity struck
Leal is present warring for his beingness successful a section Texas infirmary alternatively of preparing for his precocious schoolhouse graduation
'I recognize accidents happen, but this was not an accident,' his mother, Raquel Vazquez, said successful an interrogation with CBS.
Leal is being treated astatine Medical City Healthcare successful Arlington, Texas, which is simply a suburb betwixt Dallas and Fort Worth.
The Texas teen attended South Grand Prairie High School and was a prima connected the shot team. He is graduating this spring.
Leal was participating successful an unofficial elder contented with his classmates. 'Senior assassin' is simply a crippled wherever students are assigned peers arsenic their 'targets.'
They are tasked with 'assassinating' them with h2o guns. Leal's begetter told CBS that each the participating students download a tracking app that shows wherever their targets are.
Officials person warned parents astir the crippled for years, arsenic it poses imaginable dangers.
Leal's parents are warring for justness and are asking parents crossed the federation to archer their children not to play the viral game
Leal is simply a elder astatine South Grand Prairie High School and was a prima connected the shot team
Police successful Oklahoma warned past period connected Facebook that h2o guns tin accidentally beryllium mistaken for existent guns, causing perchance fatal misunderstandings. The crippled tin besides pb to trespassing and unsafe driving.
Leal's parents are hoping that students crossed the federation volition refrain from playing the game.
'There's a crushed wherefore they're telling you not to play it, don't play it. It's not worthy it, it's not worthy it,' Vasquez told section Fox affiliate, KXAS-TV.
South Grand Prairie's main warned that students who proceed to play the crippled could look disciplinary actions.
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