Family and friends say 14-year-old Yore Jieng is fighting for his life in the hospital tonight.

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WEBVTT Des Moines Police spent hours processing the crime scene Monday night ... But now their focus has turned to gathering surveillance video ... to try to figure out what happened here. <'IT IS UNSETTLING AND PEOPLE SHOULD BE WORRIED THAT THERE'S SOME MORON RUNNING AROUND SHOOTING A GUN OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY IN THE MIDDLE OF A BUSY INTERSECTION."> 14 year old Jieng and a family member were sitting in a car near the Earlham Savings bank ... When at least 3 gun shots rang out....officers aren't sure if the suspect or suspects were in a car or on foot. <IT WAS JUST A SHOCK ...LIKE I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.> Jieng's cousin says the whole family is just trying understand why. <HE WAS JUST PROBABLY THERE AT THE WRONG TIME AND THE WRONG PLACE.> We've learned Jieng is a freshman at Roosevelt who loved basketball and telling jokes. <JUST A REAL SOFT SPOKEN KID. REAL SENSITIVE KID TOO.> His youth pastor ... Rev. Al Perez ... Say Jieng came on the bus every Wednesday night for a youth outreach group at Zion Lutheran Church. He spent today in the hospital with Jieng's family. <I THINK THEY ARE JUST HOLDING OUT FOR A MIRACLE.> <THERE WAS A LOT OF EMOTION FROM NURSES. YO COULDN'T HELP BUT NOT FEEL GRIEF AND SADNESS BECAUSE... JUST A YOUNG KID..>

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Family and friends say 14-year-old Yore Jieng is fighting for his life in the hospital tonight. Police are still trying to figure out who shot him in the head at a busy Des Moines intersection while he sat in the car with a family member. Des Moines police spent hours processing the crime scene Monday night. Now their focus has turned to gathering surveillance video to try to figure out what happened. “It is unsettling and people should be worried that there’s some moron running around shooting a gun off in the middle of the day in the middle of a busy intersection,” Des Moines police Sgt. Paul Parizek said. Jieng and a family member were sitting in a car near the Earlham Savings Bank when at least three gunshots rang out. Officers are not sure if the suspect or suspects were in a car or on foot. “It was just a shock,” said Buay Toang, Jieng’s cousin. “Like, I didn’t know what to do.” Toang said Jieng’s family is trying to understand why the shooting happened. “He was just probably there at the wrong time and the wrong place,” Toang said. Jieng is a freshman at Roosevelt who loved basketball and telling jokes. His youth pastor, Rev. Al Perez, said Jieng came on the bus every Wednesday night for a youth outreach group at Zion Lutheran Church. “Just a real soft-spoken kid,” Perez said. “Real sensitive kid, too.” Perez spent Tuesday in the hospital with Jieng’s family. “I think they are just holding out for a miracle,” Perez said. “There was a lot of emotion from nurses. You couldn’t help but … feel grief and sadness because (Jieng is) just a young kid.” Police have not named any suspects in the case. Officers would like to speak with anyone who was near the intersection of 12th Street and Keo Way at the time of the incident whether they witnessed the shooting or not. Call detectives at 515-283-4868.