Bullet Remains Lodged In Boy's Skull Weeks After School Shooting, Teacher Says

A 12-year-old boy shot in an accidental school shooting in Los Angeles left the hospital with a bullet still lodged in his head, according to his former teacher.

A gun brought in by a student went off and struck 12-year-old Issa Al-Bayati in the head, missing all vital organs. He was discharged from the hospital last week, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.

Bridgette Robinson, who taught Al-Bayati for three years at Sal Castro Middle School in California, said in a message in a GoFundMe fundraiser that she was "horrified and saddened" that this happened to one of her former students.

Al-Bayati and his family fled violence in Iraq and had been living in the United States for several years, Robinson said, according to the LA Times.

"His mother, alone with two young boys to raise, applied for refugee status and was able to immigrate to the U.S.," she said. "And he was shot in the head in an American classroom."

Robinson said the boy often suffered from dizziness and impaired vision.

Police said that a gunshot went off in the classroom from inside a student’s book bag Feb. 1. The incident left two students, including one girl and Al-Bayati with gunshot wounds, the Associated Press reported.

A teacher and two other students also suffered injuries.

Los Angeles Police apprehended a 12-year-old girl who they said brought the semiautomatic pistol into the school.

Authorities charged her with two felonies, including one count of being a minor in possession of a firearm and a second felony count of having a weapon on school property, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Robinson set up a GoFundMe account for hospital expenses after she learned that A-Bayati’s family earned very little money.

She added that Al-Bayati would need another surgery and months of special treatments during his recovery

"He will need ongoing counseling to deal with the trauma he has experienced, as will his mother and younger brother," Robinson wrote. "No child should ever have to experience the type of loss and violence that Issa has experienced in his short life."