Shot at, hit and changed forever while leaving a Mayor's Night Out event to save his friends life, a young man who goes by "Q" is breaking his silence only with KSHB to help find who could have killed him.
The trio has been friends since as long as they can remember. It's just that now, one of them is struggling a little bit more. Sixteen-year-old Qwamayne Frazier, or "Q," has braces on the bottom of both legs from his knee to his ankles.
Describing how his life has changed, he said he’s in "rehab, I use braces, my speech is messed up."
He says his speech is "messed up" because he lost so much oxygen to his brain the night of the accident.
Q and his friends Savion Davis and Shyneisha Hill left a Mayor's Night Out event on June 21. It was what happened three hours later that changed his life forever.
"We were running and I heard the gunshots and I saw her, so I put her in front of me and that's when I got shot," Q said.
He explained he saw someone shooting at his lifelong friend Hill and on instinct he put his body between her and the bullets.
She was hit in the elbow and he took a bullet in the back. It went through his chest.
"If it wasn't for him, I don't think I would have survived that night," said Hill.
He spent nearly three weeks in the intensive care unit. The detectives who worked his case, including Dawn McCamish, were at the hospital almost every day.
"There were days in the hospital where we didn't know from one day to the next if he was going to be able to talk, if he was going to remember what happened," said McCamish.
His mentor said he’s not surprised at all that Q is fighting so hard.
"For him to do that, I wasn't surprised. I was proud, you know, it was one of those moments, but I wasn't surprised,” said Tyron Flowers, a mentor for high-risk youth.
Police have captured only one of the shooters. There is another one still out there. Q and his friends know how important it is to cooperate with police.
"Speak up, don't just keep it to yourself. It will never get solved that way," said Hill.
Q was planning to go to college on a basketball scholarship. Now, he may not be able do that.
Police said they are looking for a person of interest described as a 16- to 18-year-old black male who lives in the area of 60th and Swope. They said he hangs out in the area of Glenwood and Indiana and goes by "George."
If you have any tips for police, please call the tips hotline at 816-474-TIPS.
