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An Army veteran from Raymond is sharing the story of how he survived being shot in the head by a stray bullet.Click here to watch the report"We're having a conversation and I hear a gun go off, a gunshot, and then all of a sudden it was as if somebody cracked me in the back of the head with a baseball bat and then I grabbed my head and I could feel that there was a big lump on my head. I didn't know what had happened. I looked at my hand. I had a lot of blood on it,” Scott Fraley told WMTW News 8's Paul Merrill.Fraley was visiting a friend who was ice fishing in West Gardiner on Sunday morning. The men were near the West Gardiner Rod and Gun Club.Watch uncut interview with Scott FraleyFraley said he never loss consciousness.Another veteran Fraley had just met helped to treat his wound at the scene.Fraley was taken to Maine General in Augusta where he was treated and released.Fraley said the bullet is still in his head. Doctors told him it would work itself out.He said he has an incredible headache and ringing in his ears."Yeah, I didn't know if I was going to live or die. There was a quite a bit of blood, you know?" Fraley said.Fraley and his wife, Lisa, are still stunned by what happened, and are slowly processing how close he came to being seriously hurt or killed."You just never would think in a million years that he would be out with his friends on the lake on a gorgeous day and that could happen. You just never would dream of it,” said Lisa Fraley.Investigators have identified the shooter as 21-year-old Bryan Hickey of West Gardiner.Police and prosecutors are still looking into what exactly happened."People who use firearms should know what it is they're doing and be extremely safe — that it's not a toy. If you're going to point it, you need to know what you're pointing it at and there's just no excuse for that, zero because the consequences are irreversible,” said Fraley.