Michigan man who was accidently shot in face with ghost gun sues manufacturer and former friend

A 19-year-old Michigan man who lost his right eye after being shot with a firearm made from a ghost gun kit filed a lawsuit Tuesday against his former best friend who accidently shot him and the Pennsylvania company that sold his friend the kit.

The lawsuit, which was filed in Washtenaw County Circuit Court, alleges that JSD Supply sold two ghost gun kits in April 2021 to Guy Boyd’s then-17-year-old friend without verifying the friend’s age or whether he could legally possess a pistol.

Boyd, who also was 17, was shot in the face less than two months later. He also suffers from “ongoing chronic and debilitating seizures that have nearly killed him and will continue to impact almost every aspect of his daily life,” according to the lawsuit.

“This case is about the known and obvious dangers of arming a teenager with a gun, a company that cavalierly ignored these dangers, and a young man whose life was shattered because of it,” Boyd’s attorneys wrote in the lawsuit.

It was not immediately clear what criminal charges, if any, were filed against Boyd’s former friend, who was a minor at the time of the shooting, said David Santacroce, one of Boyd’s lawyers.

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