Blind, bloodied, disoriented and with a bullet hole in his face, the man lurched from the shower – unsure if his attacker had left the house – pulled on his underwear, and fumbled his way into the hallway.

Gripping the banister, he stumbled down the stairs, bleeding from shards of glass that had exploded into his eyes.

At the bottom, he got on all fours and groped his way toward the front door.

Crawling along, he felt a motionless body on the floor – a tall man, he could tell – and Brandon Dufault knew his longtime family friend was dead.

After being shot point blank in the face in Thursday’s Aliso Viejo shooting that left two people dead, Dufault, 23, is recovering in a local hospital, his father said. He remains blind, but surgeons on Sunday, Oct. 16, were able to remove a bullet lodged in his tonsils.

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2 killed, 2 injured in Aliso Viejo shooting sparked by argument, 1 man sought Tony Dufault, Brandon’s dad, said his son may never see again. But after hearing his son’s account of Thursday’s violent chaos – which he recounted to the Register – the father acknowledges his son is lucky just to be alive.

Brandon Dufault was a childhood friend of Luke William Ferguson, the 26-year-old man whom police arrested Friday on suspicion of homicide and attempted homicide in the Aliso Viejo shooting.

As children, Brandon, Luke and their brothers would go fishing together off the pier in Venice Beach, where they grew up. Tony Dufault said that since middle school, he had been friends with Doug Ferguson, Luke’s father, who was killed in Thursday’s shooting at age 59 along with Doug’s girlfriend, Lisa Cosenza, 51, a former advertising director at the Daily Pilot.

But Brandon and Luke grew apart as they got older, especially after the Dufaults moved to Big Bear nearly a decade ago. Despite the distance, the two men found themselves living together recently at Cosenza’s Aliso Viejo house after Brandon Dufault began renting a room from his the longtime family friends.

Todd Kuchar, 48, another man living in the home who was shot three times and injured in Thursday’s violence, told media last week that violent incident stemmed from a confrontation in which the elder Ferguson told his son to get a job and stop drinking beer.

Authorities have not released details of how the shooting began. But Brandon Dufault told his father he was upstairs, taking a shower after working his shift at Home Depot when he heard several loud pops. Soon after, someone burst through the bathroom door, aimed a black handgun point blank at Brandon Dufault’s head and fired a single shot through the shower door, shattering the glass, the elder Dufault said.

The bullet entered Brandon Dufault’s skull near the left side of his nose and lodged in his tonsils, his father said. But the more permanent damage came from the exploding glass fragments, which flew into his eyes, leaving him sightless.

Once Brandon Dufault reached the bottom of the staircase, he clambered over the body of Doug Ferguson and out the front door. Emerging on his feet, he was greeted with shouts from sheriff’s deputies, his father said: “Get down on the ground!”

Once deputies established that Brandon Dufault was a victim, he was taken to a nearby hospital. A sheriff’s spokeswoman said Ferguson had already fled the scene.

Tony Dufault thanked a neighbor who called 911, bringing law enforcement to the scene.

“If it wasn’t for her, my son might have bled out,” Tony Dufault said.

Brandon Dufault will need numerous sinus and eye surgeries in the coming years, his father said.

“Maybe a year or two down the road he might end up with 20/2400 vision; what we’re hoping for at this point is shadows and colors someday,” Tony Dufault said.

“This is a 23-year-old kid who has had his independence taken away,” Tony Dufault continued. “I’m really angry… But (Brandon’s) very lucky the bullet didn’t hit any major arteries. I mean, thank God he’s alive.”

Brandon Dufault’s friends and families have started a GoFundMe page to raise money for his mounting medical bills.

Police captured Ferguson on Friday in Inglewood following a pursuit. He is set to be charged and arraigned on Tuesday, an Orange County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman said. In the past four years, Ferguson has been convicted of misdemeanor stalking and violating protective orders and has served a few short stints in Los Angeles County jail.