Baseball commit survives headshot wound in Santa Fe shooting, thanks God for protecting him
On Thursday night, Sante Fe High School sophomore Rome Shubert pitched in Sante Fe’s 4-0 loss to Kingwood Park in the Texas high school baseball playoffs.
The next morning, Shubert was ducking for cover behind a desk when a gunman opened fire in his classroom as part of a shooting rampage that killed nine students and one teacher.
Shubert was shot in the back of the head, but miraculously survived and is “completely okay,” he said on Twitter.
He also praised God for praising his life and said he felt “blessed.”
I’m so greatful and blessed that god spared me life today. Today I was shot in the back of the head but i am completely okay and stable.
— Rome Shubert (@romeshubert_) May 18, 2018
“I’m so grateful (sic) and blessed that god spared me life today. Today I was shot in the back of the head but i am completely okay and stable,” he wrote.
Shubert, who has committed to attend the University of Houston to play baseball, told the Houston Chronicle what happened.
“I was sitting doing my work and he walked in, tossed something on the desks behind me,” he said, “and then three loud pops and I jumped under my table and flipped it in front of me and I guess he ran out in the hall and I took off out the back door and when I was running I realized I was shot in the back of my head.”
“I was just scared for my life and my adrenaline was so high I had no idea I was shot,” Shubert added.
“No idea I had been shot”: Santa Fe, TX school shooting survivor Rome Shubert – who was shot in the head — describes what happened pic.twitter.com/LQin1JrHk6
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) May 19, 2018
Shubert told KTRK in Sante Fe that the bullet went through the middle of the back of his head and came out just below his ear on the other side.
“I just feel lucky to be here,” he said. “I just wish this didn’t happen. This shouldn’t happen to anybody in that school.”
Tonight we fight for our playoff lives at UofH, but today our world was shaken up by the Santa Fe shooting. My prayers go out to all the victims of this horrendous attack including future @UHCougarBB teammate Rome Shubert @rome_shubert17. May god be with you all.🙏
— Tre Richardson (@_trerichardson_) May 18, 2018
He was admitted to Clear Lake Regional Medical Center on Friday morning but was back home that afternoon with a bandage below his left ear.
“They (the doctors) told me that this was the perfect scenario for getting hit in the head and that if it would have done anything else other than what it did, that I could be paralyzed,” Shubert said.
“What a miracle,” his mother, Sheri Shubert, told The Wall Street Journal. “How did he spare my son? I just screamed, ‘Thank you, Jesus!’”
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