How a teenager got shot after a group of boys were given guns on a Hill Country ranch is at the center of lawsuit filed this week in Williamson County.

Melissa and Allen Bradley, the parents of the 14-year-old boy who was shot, say the shooter is the son of Georgetown attorney William Bryan Farney. The Bradleys also allege that Farney’s son, also 14, slapped their child, tied him up and tried to get him to run around naked in retribution for being involved in the killing of an exotic antelope.

The Bradleys’ son, who was shot in the arm before the bullet traveled to his chest, survived the shooting but still has pain in his hand and arm, said the family’s lawyer, Randy Howry. His medical bills have reached at least $61,000, Howry said.

The incident happened after Farney’s son invited six other 14-year-old boys to Farney’s ranch that straddles Burnet and Lampasas counties on Oct. 7, 2016, the lawsuit said.

"Even though none of the boys had a hunting license, Farney opened up his gun cabinet, allowed the boys to take a weapon and then let them embark and roam around Farney’s ranch completely unsupervised in something that is best described as a combination of ‘Lord of the Flies’ and ‘Hunger Games,’" the lawsuit said.

Farney didn’t reply to a request for comment about the lawsuit, which seeks an unspecified amount of damages.

Farney had filed a defamation lawsuit against Melissa Bradley in December 2016 that said the shooting was an accident but that Melissa Bradley had falsely told a Burnet County prosecutor that he had tried to have the other teenagers change their stories about what happened at his ranch. That lawsuit is pending.

Bradley didn’t make false statements to a prosecutor about Farney, according to a counterclaim filed in December by Howry. The shooting was investigated by the Burnet County sheriff’s office and the Texas Rangers, the counterclaim said. It also said charges were filed against Farney’s son in Burnet County and were pending in December.

Burnet County Attorney Eddie Arredondo said Friday he couldn’t comment on any investigation involving juveniles.

The shooting wasn’t an accident, Howry said this week. He said the Bradleys’ son was with another 14-year-old boy on Farney’s ranch who accidentally shot a kudu — a species of African antelope — thinking it was a deer. When Farney’s son found out about it, he slapped the Bradleys’ son in the face, aimed a loaded rifle at him and drove him back to a building on the ranch, Howry said.

Farney’s son and some other boys tied up the Bradleys’ son before another boy released him, the lawsuit said. Farney’s son then aimed a .22-caliber rifle at the Bradleys’ son and told him to run around the ranch naked, Howry said. "(The Bradleys’ son) said, ‘I’m not going to do it,’ and that’s when he got shot,’" Howry said.

He said at least two other boys saw Farney’s son shoot the Bradleys’ son.

Farney and his son later called the shooting an accident, saying Farney’s son put the rifle down on an air-conditioning vent when it went off and struck the Bradleys’ son, the lawsuit said. Four of the boys who were at the ranch later told authorities that the story about the air-conditioning vent was a lie that Farney’s son had asked them to provide to investigators, according to the lawsuit.