The wooded area is where the Love County Sheriff's Office says an accidental shooting occurred Wednesday night around 7 p.m. near Oswalt and I-35. We spoke with someone that was in an RV close by, who says someone came to his camper asking for help.

"I peaked out and he came around the corner and he said 'hey can I borrow your phone we need to call 911 because we had a kid that just got shot,'" says RV owner Denver Sanders.

Sanders says it happened just a few feet into the wooded area.

"It went in right under his jaw and pierced his tongue in the back of his throat and came to rest in his vertebrae," says the victim's aunt Kathy Potter.

That's what Potter says happened to her nephew, Blayke Dean.

She says the 18 year-old and his friends were doing target practice alongside a ravine.

"And the boy who shot him had spurs on and caught his spur in a tree root and when he did he dropped a 22 pistol he was carrying and shot him in the neck," says Potter.

Sheriff Marty Grisham says they will not be pursuing any charges against the shooter.

"Use gun safety in the wooded areas and make sure its unloaded if you're not actually hunting and don't be horse playing with the weapons in your hands," says Sheriff Grisham.

Potter says Blayke will go through surgery Thursday night.

"We love him and we're all praying for him, he's a strong kid. He's gonna pull through," says Potter.

Deputies say although this was a terrible accident, people need to make sure they're using proper gun safety at all times.