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Shot 8-Yr-Old Released From Hospital: "I Don’t Like When People Do Bad Stuff At Me"
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 28, 2012
Modified Feb 28, 2012
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The 8-year-old boy who was shot at a Bronx store last week was finally released from the hospital yesterday. However, Armando Bigo will have to live with having a bullet in his shoulder for the rest of his life. The second-grader was relieved to leave the hospital, telling the Daily News, "It's boring."
Police arrested 15-year-old Eduardo Rodriguez for the bike-by shooting; he is being held on $250,000 bail. It's suspected that Rodriguez was trying to hit a member of a rival gang.
The little boy also spoke to WCBS 2, "I don’t like when people [are] trying to do bad stuff at me,” and reiterated his happiness to out of the hospital, "I thought I was going to stay there forever." He added to the News, "I’m not really nervous to go home. I'm upset with (the shooter) because he shot me. It was stupid."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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