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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A 17-year-old lad who allegedly changeable San Francisco 49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall successful Union Square was charged with attempted execution connected Tuesday, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told reporters.
Jenkins said she charged the lad arsenic a juvenile and helium volition stay wrong the juvenile justness tribunal system.
The teen is facing 3 charges: attempted murder, battle with a semi-automatic firearm, and robbery. The boy, who lives successful Tracy, Calif., has not been named by officials due to the fact that helium is simply a minor. He volition beryllium arraigned connected Wednesday astatine 1:30 p.m. successful San Francisco's Juvenile Justice Center.
"Because we are dealing with a minor, determination is precise small I tin share. I americium not going to stock immoderate facts (of the case). This lawsuit volition beryllium tried similar each different cases, successful the courtroom, not successful the press," Jenkins told reporters.
NFL shot subordinate Ricky Pearsall is seen adjacent to an ambulance successful San Francisco's Union Square aft helium was changeable connected Aug. 31, 2024. (Image by Diana Luna via Storyful) Police said the lad changeable Pearsall successful the thorax during a failed robbery attempt. The shooting happened successful wide daylight Saturday afternoon. According to 49ers wide manager John Lynch, Pearsall was successful the metropolis for an autograph signing lawsuit and shopping.
The NFL shot subordinate seemingly fought back. "During the attempted robbery, a carnal altercation ensued, and some the fishy and unfortunate were injured," a San Francisco Police Department spokesperson wrote.
An SFPD sergeant rushed to assistance Pearsall and dilatory down bleeding from his thorax until an ambulance arrived.
Ricky Pearsall trains connected March 2, 2024 successful Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Kevin Sabitus /Getty Images)Officers instantly arrested the boy, according to Mayor London Breed. A ample assemblage gathered successful the country of the shooting. One witnesser successful the assemblage changeable video showing the shirtless 49ers subordinate walking to an ambulance with assistance from medics. Pearsall and the teen were transported to hospitals for aesculapian treatment.
Lynch said erstwhile helium received a telephone connected Saturday that his subordinate had been shot, helium feared the worst.
"It's not each time you woody with thing similar this. The earliest calls that I received were highly scary. Shot successful the thorax ... that result is not usually a bully one," Lynch said. "I was capable to beryllium down astatine the hospital. I heard it from truthful galore down there, it's thing abbreviated of miraculous that helium came retired of this arsenic bully arsenic helium did. It's miraculous."
Erin Pearsall is seen with her son, Ricky Pearsall, astatine a media lawsuit for the 49ers. Pearsall's parent said the slug entered her son's chest, missed each of his captious organs, and exited done his back. She wrote connected Facebook. "I privation to convey GOD for protecting my babe boy. He is highly lucky. He was changeable successful the thorax and it exited retired his back."
Pearsall was released from San Francisco General Hospital conscionable 24 hours aft helium was shot.
The 49ers placed its rookie connected the team's reserve/non-football wounded database connected Monday, which makes Pearsall ineligible for the archetypal 4 games of the 2024 NFL season. The earliest the 2024 first-round prime tin play successful is Week 5 astatine location against the Arizona Cardinals connected Oct. 6, depending connected however rapidly his betterment goes.
Lynch said, "He was disappointed, but understood that we enactment him connected that list. It's 4 weeks, astatine least. When we drafted Ricky, we did it for the agelong term. Ricky is going to beryllium a fantastic subordinate here."
On Tuesday the squad held its archetypal signifier astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara since the shooting. Pearsall was astatine the stadium and talked with his teammates astir what happened.
Star violative tackle Trent Williams said the shooting was a origin successful Williams' determination to instrumentality to the squad and motion a caller contract. "To beryllium real, I felt much compelled to travel backmost aft that than anything… beryllium determination for the team," Williams said.
SFPD Chief Bill Scott said his officers person recovered nary grounds that suggests Pearsall was targeted due to the fact that helium is an NFL player.
Breed called the shooting "a unspeakable and uncommon incidental successful Union Square." Jenkins, the city's apical prosecutor, said, "We volition not tolerate senseless transgression successful SF and we volition guarantee that determination is accountability.
All minors who are convicted wrong California's juvenile tribunal strategy -- including attempted execution convictions -- are released from custody erstwhile they crook 25 years old. "They are released backmost into the nationalist with nary supervision astatine that point. Jail clip is not an enactment for a minor. They volition not beryllium transferred implicit to the region jail," District Attorney Jenkins explained.
Jenkins said her bureau volition enactment intimately with the shot subordinate and his household arsenic the lawsuit develops.
