WFAA reported<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe Richardson High School senior had gone to help his friend, who was being attacked by a group of teens, when at least one of them pulled out a gun, shooting Seth as he tried to run away, his family said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said he\u2019ll never walk again,\u201d Seth\u2019s father, James Jackson, told WFAA, as he described receiving the phone call no parent ever wants to hear.<\/p>\n
Seth Jackson, 18, was left paralyzed after he was shot in a Waffle House parking lot. Go Fund Me<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s every parent\u2019s nightmare,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Charles Webster, 17, and Taylor Griffin, 18 \u2014 have both been charged with engaging in organized criminal activity, but the shooter is still on the loose, according to the elder Jackson.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would this guy shoot my son?\u201d James said, describing him as an athlete, a straight-A student,and a two-job worker who had recently committed to attending the University of Houston in the fall.<\/p>\n
Seth\u2019s father, James Jackson, said the phone call about his son\u2019s injuries was \u201cevery parent\u2019s nightmare.\u201d FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth<\/p>\n
Mugshot of Charles Webster, 17. Richardson Police Department<\/p>\n
Mugshot of Taylor Griffin, 18. Richardson Police Department<\/p>\n
The family had recently helped Seth secure the lease for an apartment near his future campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cLife changes,\u201d James said, snapping his fingers.<\/p>\n
Seth is out of the intensive care unit following three surgeries in three days, but remains hospitalized, and faces a lengthy recovery process, according to his family, who have set up a fundraiser for his rehabilitation.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur number one concern is that he survives it. We\u2019ll figure out the changes we need to make,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A straight-A student athlete has been left paralyzed after he was shot in a Waffle House parking lot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4028,294,3346,27,29,28,734],"class_list":{"0":"post-226135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-shootings","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}