Name of Youth with Gunshot Wound Released

The Brainerd Police Department has identified the youth who was injured in a shooting as Nathaniel Lawrence Fitch, age 13, of Brainerd. Fitch was critically injured when he was shot in the head as he and two friends were playing with a handgun in the home of the two friends. The accident happend at 9 o'clock last night at a home on Oak Street. Investigators believe Fitch may have accidentally shot himself in the presence of the two friends, believing that the gun was safe. Police are trying to figure out how the boys acquired the gun. The accident remains under investigation, and Fitch remains hospitalized in critical condition in St. Cloud.