NFL participant Ricky Pearsall has been shot within the chest throughout an tried theft in San Francisco.
Pearsall, 23, “sustained a bullet wound to his chest” and is in a “critical however steady situation” in keeping with his staff the San Francisco 49ers, following the incident by town’s Union Sq. on Saturday afternoon.
Police say a 17-year-old suspect is in custody and “expenses are pending”.
Footage shared on social media confirmed a shirtless Pearsall being walked to an ambulance by paramedics and sitting on a gurney as he held a shirt to his chest.
Police mentioned upon arrival on the scene of the incident they discovered two males struggling accidents and each had been taken to hospital.
“Throughout the preliminary investigation, officers discovered one of many topics tried to rob the sufferer, San Francisco 49ers participant Ricky Pearsall,” they mentioned in a press release.
“Throughout the tried theft, a bodily altercation ensued, and each the suspect and sufferer had been injured.”
Pearsall was a primary spherical draft choose by the 49ers in April, when the perfect faculty gamers are chosen to affix the NFL.
He has simply returned to follow from a shoulder harm earlier than the 49ers play their first sport of the brand new season on 10 September.