Christopher Sullivan survived a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, only to be shot at his homecoming party in southern California.
Family members said the returning soldier, 22, was left paralyzed after the shooting on Friday.
Sullivan's friends threw a party to celebrate his return on leave to his hometown of San Bernardino.
But the party turned tragic when a fight broke out between Sullivan's brother and one of people who showed up to the party. When Sullivan tried to break up the fight, the man pulled out a gun and fired into Sullivan's back, shattering his spine, according to the San Bernardino Sun.
"My son didn't deserve this this. He served his country," the soldier's mother Suzanne Sullivan told the San Bernardino Sun.
Sullivan cracked his collar bone and suffered brain damage after a suicide bombing last December in the Afghan city of Kandahar. The attack killed five of his fellow soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the San Bernardino Sun reports.
Sullivan earned a Purple Heart for his service.
"To come home to this, it's so unfair," Sullivan's aunt Theresa Marquez told the San Bernardino Sun.
"He was so happy to be back," his sister Crystal Watson said. "He kept saying, everything was going to be OK."
Sullivan planned to go to college when he completed his Army enlistment in April.
The gunman fled the scene before police arrived. They have not identified the suspect.
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