‘I got trauma’: Grant Union High shooting victim seeks donations to pay for medical bills

Ishani Desai
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The student who was shot in the arm Tuesday at Grant Union High School, prompting the school to lockdown for two hours and injecting parents and students with alarm, is raising money to pay for his medical expenses and therapy to deal with the trauma he suffered.

Christopher Balan, 17, was shot once in the parking lot of the school’s campus in the Del Paso Heights neighborhood and briefly hospitalized for the wound to his arm.

“I am fundraising because I got trauma and medical bills are expensive,” Balan wrote on the fundraising platform GoFundMe. “I will be using these funds for medical bills and therapy.”

The student who got shot in the arm at Grant Union High School, prompting the school to lockdown for two hours and injecting parents with alarm, is raising money to pay for his medical expenses and the trauma he suffered.
The student who got shot in the arm at Grant Union High School, prompting the school to lockdown for two hours and injecting parents with alarm, is raising money to pay for his medical expenses and the trauma he suffered.

The Sacramento Police Department and officers from the Twin Rivers Unified School District police force arrested a 14-year-old boy a few blocks off campus on suspicion of assault-related charges Tuesday. A Grant High security guard helped in the apprehension, the guard’s mother told The Sacramento Bee.

“I am very thankful for anything,” Balan wrote.

The link for the GoFundMe can be found at bit.ly/4biT7ma.