'In 4 Seconds Someone Died And I Got Shot,' Survivor Says

LAKEWOOD, Wash. -- A man who was shot with the same bullet that killed an armored car guard described the scene at a Wal-Mart where the shooting and robbery took place.

Wilbert Pina was in the store Tuesday with his 15-month-old son waiting to cash a check when he heard a bang and felt a bullet tearing into his shoulder.

The impact of the gunshot knocked Pina forward over the shopping cart where his son sat.

"I was just thinking of my son and my wife and my family and wondering if I was going to see them again," said Pina. "In four seconds someone died and I got shot," Pina told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Richard Thompson.

Shot in the back of his shoulder, Pina turned to see a man dying on the floor and another man waving a gun. Pina showed Thompson how he tried to protect his son Emmet.

"I saw the gun waving and I picked him up out of the chair and held him against my body," said Pina.

Pina said in that moment, he believed he might die but had to save his son.

"Assuming the worst -- if he shoots us I'm going to be shot. I don’t' care. At least I'll fall on my son and he'll be OK," Pina told Thompson.

The gunman fled with a bag of cash leaving armored car guard Kurt Husted dead of a gunshot wound to the head and Pina with the same bullet lodged inside his shoulder as he held his son tightly.

"I started crying because this guy could have killed me and my son with one single bullet," he said.

Pina said doctors were unable to remove the bullet from his shoulder.

Though in pain, Pina said he is grateful he and his son survived.