He continued: “Something needs to be done. Somebody saw something. If you did, call the police.”

Pinkstaff added that he could forgive a teenager who made a mistake with a gun he wasn’t supposed to have. Regardless of the scenario, though, he said someone should answer for it.

“Now that I’m kind of assured that my child will survive, … I can forgive,” he said. But “whatever the reason, someone has to be held accountable for this.”

Annette Pinkstaff, Grant’s mother and Mark Pinkstaff’s ex-wife, drove Grant to the hospital and was there when they learned that he’d been hit by a bullet.

“I was losing it,” Annette Pinkstaff said. “He said, ‘Mama, I’m going to be OK.’ ”

Since then, Grant has been left with constant pain from swelling.

“You feel helpless because you want the swelling to go down and the blood to go away,” his mother said.

The family is hoping to have Grant home for his 10th birthday on Sunday but are planning to postpone his party to throw him a much larger one than they had planned.

“Grant said he never wants to see another fireworks show ever,” his father said. “He’ll have that bullet to remind him that he’s a miracle.”

Jarrel Wade 918-581-8367 jarrel.wade@tulsaworld.com