India, March 30 -- A GoFundMe has been started for a straight-A student athlete who has been paralyzed after being shot in a Waffle House parking lot while trying to help a friend, his family has said. 18-year-old Seth Jackson suffered a ruptured lung and aorta, fractured ribs and a shattered spinal cord in the shooting in Richardson, Texas, on March 19, WFAA reported.

Jackson is a Richardson High School senior. He was shot when he had gone to help his friend, who was allegedly being attacked by a group of teenagers. One of the teens pulled out a gun and shot Jackson as he tried to run away, according to his family.

"They said he'll never walk again," Seth's father, James Jackson, told WFAA.

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