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A Rochester man was struck in the top of the head by a bullet on Tuesday night, but was not injured.Click here to watch News 9's report.Police said Corey Field, 25, of 16 Leonard St., fired a gun from his bedroom. The bullet traveled across the street, through a closed window and through two walls before striking the head of 20-year-old Josh DeMeritt."It didn't hurt at all, DeMeritt said.DeMeritt was sitting on a bed at a friend's house playing a computer game when the bullet hit him."The next thing I know, I just have some plaster flying off the wall at me," he said. "I didn't realize it was a bullet, but it hit me right off the top of the head."DeMeritt said he had no idea what happened."At first, I was really confused, and I was like, 'Why would somebody throw something into the room?' and I looked at the wall, and I was like, 'That's not good,'" he said.Field faces a charge of reckless conduct for discharging a firearm.Donna Stuart, the mother of DeMeritt's friend, said the bullet cut a path through her apartment."It went through all this and broke this, went through the curtain and made a hole," she said. "It shot straight across the room to where that stocking is right there."DeMeritt and Stuart said they think the bullet was deflected by a stud in the wall, which slowed it enough to not hurt him. DeMeritt said he doesn't know Field, but he has some advice for him."I would go to a weapons safety class if I was him," DeMeritt said.Field is also facing a charge of falsifying physical evidence. Police said he tried to hide the gun in a snow bank.In court, Field asked if he could apologize to DeMeritt, but he was ordered to have no contact with him. Field said the gun fired accidentally while he was trying to clean it.12967056