Family of injured Harwell student to hold news conference
McALLEN -- The family of one of the Harwell Middle School students injured in a shooting Monday will hold a news conference at McAllen Medical Center this morning.
The South Texas Health System announced Thursday evening that boy's family requested media gather at the hospital so they address "their son's recovery and to ask the community for continued support," a news release states.
The student's medical team will also be present, though the release did not indicate the patient himself will make an appearance.
The Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department continues to investigate the shooting at the Edinburg middle school campus, where two male students -- one 13-year-old and 14-year-old -- suffered injuries from apparently stray bullets.
Investigators have yet to determine the origin of the bullets, though they no longer believe hunting played a factor in the incident.
An initial theory led authorities to believe either an illegal immigrant caught poaching to the west of the campus may have accidentally shot the two boys. Police also questioned two men who said they were target shooting to the north of the school.
On Wednesday, Justice of the Peace Charlie Espinoza charged the illegal immigrant, 26-year-old David Guerrero Navarro, with two class A misdemeanors -- poaching and criminal trespass -- after he confessed to shooting at a javelina at a ranch nearby.
Sheriff Lupe Trevino said his investigators do not believe Navarro was involved in the children's shooting.
What Trevino called "errant" projectiles wounded the students Monday as they tried out for the school's basketball team about 4:45 p.m. at a makeshit court in a parking lot west of the court.
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