For 15-year-old Brandon Reid, what started out as a celebration ended in a big scare and a trip to the hospital.
Reid was hit behind the ear by a stray bullet Thursday as he sat in his mother's Miramar apartment watching the Miami Heat's Championship win.
"I felt like I got hit with a big rock by a baseball pitcher," Reid said.
Reid, who lives in Georgia with his father, is in South Florida for the summer visiting his mother and half-brother. His father rushed down from Georgia when he got the news.
"It's the last thing you ever want to hear," Marvin Reid said. "The reality of it: today they pulled a 9 millimeter slug out of my son's head."
Luckily, the bullet got stuck behind his son's ear.
"[It's] one of the thickest places in the skull," said pediatric surgeon Dr. Dean Hertzler. "It lodged against the bone there and cracked it, but it didn't go through."
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Reid's little brother said he knew his brother would pull through.
"I know my brother is stronger than a bullet," Daryl Denson Jr. said.
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