Teen recovering after being shot in chest during carjacking [Video]

Will Hammond was shot in the chest when he and his mom were carjacked as they left work together last week.

DEER PARK, Texas — A pair of blood-stained sneakers remain a rather morbid reminder of the night 16-year-old Will Hammond could have easily lost his young life.

“I am fortunate,” Hammond said. “The Lord helped me a lot.”

He’s now home from the hospital with bandages covering a bullet’s entry and exit wounds in his chest and back.

“It went in between my fifth and sixth rib,” Hammond said.

Hammond is considered a hero after police said he was shot while protecting his mother — both of whom had just left work together late last Tuesday night when a carjacking suspect confronted them in Deer Park.

“I wasn’t looking for that,” Hammond said. “I didn’t know any of this was going to happen. All I was doing was helping my mom out.”