Hours after the horrific shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church, 10-year-old Weston Halsne, along with his grandpa and his dad, returned to the police tape to share how his life was saved.

"It was really scary," Weston said. "My friend, Victor, like, saved me, though. Because he laid on top of me. But he got hit. He's really brave and I hope he's good in the hospital."

That friend, Victor Greenawalt, is now recovering at home after two days in the hospital, his family says on their GoFundMe page.

Weston, his innocent voice resonating with so many people watching coverage of the shooting, was just two seats away from the windows where the shooter fired and his family thought he was completely spared.

"I think I got, like, gunpowder on my neck," Weston said.

Weston's parents took him to the doctor as a precaution and learned that what they thought was gunpowder was actually a bullet fragment.

"When they did the X-ray, my jaw hit the floor," said Weston's dad, Grant Halsne. "Yeah, it traveled all the way through and stopped right before his carotid artery. So he's a very, very lucky little boy."

Grant says the fragment is actually resting on the carotid artery.

"It ran out of momentum just in time. So we're very, very thankful for that," Grant said.

So Weston's return to normalcy after the shooting now takes a short detour at Children's Hospital, where a surgeon is removing the fragment in what Grant calls a delicate, but low-risk surgery.

"Yeah, I'm just praying for the best," Grant said.

Grant says he's also still trying to process everything his son and his schoolmates have experienced.

"They don't deserve to go through this; it's just unthinkable," he said.