NFL participant Ricky Pearsall was shot within the chest throughout an tried theft in San Francisco.
Pearsall, 23, suffered a “gunshot wound to the chest” following the incident in San Francisco’s Union Sq. on Saturday afternoon, and his staff, the San Francisco 49ers, mentioned his situation was “severe however steady.”
Police mentioned a 17-year-old suspect was in custody and “expenses are pending.”
Footage shared on social media confirmed a shirtless Pearsall being carried to an ambulance by paramedics, sitting on a gurney with a shirt held to his chest.
Police mentioned they arrived on the scene to search out two males injured and each had been taken to hospital.
“Throughout the course of the preliminary investigation, police discovered that one of many suspects tried to rob the sufferer, San Francisco 49ers participant Ricky Pearsall,” they mentioned in an announcement.
“Throughout the tried theft, a bodily altercation occurred and each the suspect and sufferer had been injured.”
Pearsall was the 49ers’ first-round draft decide in April, when the most effective school gamers had been drafted into the NFL.
He was coming back from a shoulder harm earlier than the 49ers performed their first sport of the brand new season on Sept. 10.
