The death of 3-year-old Shayne Iverson shocked Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Shayne was just days old. His parents had just brought him home for the hospital when a stray bullet came out of the woods and hit him.
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After years of battling illnesses -- we reported the tragic news just over a month ago that Shayne had died.
"He was going to school every day, saying a few words, things were going really great, And then this happened,” said Shayne’s mother Stefanie Iverson.
Iverson remembers the absolute best times from her son Shayne’s life before he died after catching a cold last month.
He loved amusement parks and swimming and even after being tragically hit by a hunter’s stray bullet three years ago, Shayne grew to love a life he didn't know was any different.
"I kind of always knew in my heart, that my time was limited with Shayne because all of his medical issues so I tried to make every day the best day of Shayne's life we did so much,” Iverson said.
Shane's father was holding him in the living room of their rural Saltsburg home when a bullet changed their lives forever. Shane was only 6-days-old.
"I literally thought he was going to die in my arms that day before the ambulance came,” Iverson said.
[ PHOTOS: Family remembers 3-year-old Shayne Iverson ]
In the three years that passed, Shayne learned to live a new life, one with medical complications uncontrolled seizures, unable to walk, talk, eat or see. But despite it all, his mother says his attitude for life was never compromised.
She spoke with Channel 11 today sharing their story for the first time.
"He was my inspiration and my strength to get through everything. Everything he went through he was always so happy,” Iverson said.
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The Iversons are now working with Apollo council to get a handicap swing and a memorial plaque for Shane in Owens Grove Park.
Stefanie told us since moving, it's quieter. She doesn't hear as many hunters surrounding her property. Her hope, tonight, is no other parent will have to go through what they did.
"Please know what you're shooting at, accidents like this do happen and it changed our lives forever in that one split second,” Iverson said.
The Iverson family had a make a wish trip planned for Disney. Their trip was cancelled after Shayne died, but friends of the family are trying to still find a way to get the rest of the family there.
As for the hunter, the DA says he was cited by the game commission and completed a diversion program.
Prosecutors don't plan on taking any farther legal action now because of the amount of time that's passed.