COBB COUNTY, GA — New details have emerged in the heartbreaking shooting that left a 13-year-old boy critically injured in a Cobb County neighborhood on Monday afternoon.

Authorities say the teen, who was visiting family in Mableton, was shot in the head around 4 p.m. near the 1900 block of Padgett Drive. His mother says doctors have given him just a 1% chance of survival and describes her son as an “innocent bystander.”

The boy’s aunt told Channel 2 Action News that they were walking together when gunfire suddenly erupted. “Me and my nephew were just walking down the street, and when we were walking, gunshots just started going off and everybody started running,” she recalled. “When I came back over here, I seen my nephew on the ground shot in his head.”

She now has one haunting question for the suspects: “To them kids that came over here with those guns… why?”

Cobb County police have confirmed that three juveniles have been taken into custody in connection with the shooting. Their identities have not been released, and the investigation remains ongoing.

His loved ones hold on to hope as the young victim continues to fight for his life.