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The young boy who shielded his best friend from a spray of bullets earlier this week said he wouldn't hesitate to take the same action again. "She's kind of like a sister to me, so I would do anything if it's part of my family," Rony Monzon said from his home Friday. Two days earlier, the 13-year-old was sitting on a porch and eating pizza with Deneysi Valdovinos, a girl he's known his whole life, when a gunman walked up and started shooting. He is back at home recovering, his right arm in a sling, and a bandage on top of his left hand. "I don't know where they started shooting from the side and I was like very scared and I ran inside. And then her dad told me that I was bleeding. I checked myself and I was bleeding from my chest, my arm; and I saw the little holes and I was very scared," he said. Despite being scared, he said he didn't feel any pain and tried to remain calm, even trying ease the fears of his own mother, who'd been called to the home. "I just remember that I hold him and he just said, 'Mom, calm down. I'm OK. I'm OK," ... that was his only concern in the moment," recalled the boy's mother, Diana Monzon. Doctors said the teen was hit three times; in the arm, chest and hip. All of the bullets passed completely through his young body. Monzon said Valdovinos visited him in the hospital before his release late Thursday evening. | 
