The Rev. Shaun Harrison’s son Jeremy — facing trial for the apparently accidental shooting of his girlfriend in 2013 — came to his father’s defense yesterday, calling the accusations that his dad shot a 17-year-old student he had recruited to sell drugs “nonsense.”

“The truth is going to come out because that’s what the truth does,” Jeremy Harrison, 30, told the Herald in a brief phone interview yesterday. “I’m all in support for my father.”

Jeremy Harrison added he has not spoken to his father since Shaun Harrison’s arrest last week on attempted murder and gun and drug possession charges, but he said he has been in touch with his father’s lawyer.

Jeremy Harrison, a former street worker for the Boston Center for Youth and Families, was arrested and indicted in 2013 after his girlfriend was shot in the head in his Dorchester apartment. He claims it was accidental.

The woman survived and “is able to walk, talk and live a life that most people who suffered her injury can only dream about,” said Jake Wark, spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. Harrison was fired by the city a few weeks after the shooting.

At the time of the shooting, the Rev. Shaun Harrison said his son was cleaning his gun when the accident occurred. Prosecutors now charge, though, that Jeremy Harrison told police he had put the gun under a coat and it accidentally fired and hit his girlfriend when he grabbed the coat.

The younger Harrison told investigators he kept the gun, which had an obliterated serial number, for protection. He was originally indicted in 2013 for unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition. Last year, a grand jury also indicted him for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, finding he was reckless in his handling of the gun, Wark said.

Jeremy Harrison is out on GPS monitoring and is due back in court April 30 for a pretrial conference. He declined to comment on his own case. His lawyer did not return a call for comment.