Heroic 9th Grader Takes 2 Shots To Save Infant nephew

When De Je Brewer, a 9th grade girl in Los Angeles, tried to protect her 10-month-old nephew during a drive-by shooting, she took two bullets into her body.

This 14-year-old straight-A student had been inside an SUV with her nephew, when a dark, green Pontiac Grand Prix suddenly started firing after the car pulled up behind them. Its driver and passenger began to shoot at them, according to hngn.

"I didn't know what to do, and then I felt something hit my arm. I touched it and it was blood. So I tried to cover the baby, and I laid over him," the teen from San Bernadino described the scene, according to The Root.

She had arrived at Los Angeles to attend a family funeral with her siblings. While the baby was not harmed, she too was not wounded much.

Fortunately, while the bullets hurt her arm and back, they did not injure her lung.

"I felt something hit me," said De Je. "So then I checked and there was blood."

She is recovering but in pain, especially the hand that took the bullet.

Her enraged aunt Donna Brooks feels that the attack was "random," while the cops have yet to arrest anyone. "It's vicious," she said, according to NBC California. "It's evil and it's cruel."

Brewer's heroism is being hailed by many, but she mainly feels that she is "blessed."