By Lori Brown - bio | email

Shelby County, TN (WMC-TV) - A Shelby County high school student was struck by lightning while walking home from class on the first day of school.

The lightning strike happened around two o'clock Monday afternoon, on Hughes Meadow, just outside of Southwind High School in Southeast Shelby County.

Friends identify the teenager as 17-year-old Tierney Bourage. She was still at LeBonheur Children's Medical Center Monday night.

At last update, she was still unconscious, and in critical condition. But she was showing some signs of improvement.

"It was just a regular street," Bourage's friend Charles Esaw said. "No trees coming over, nothing."

Friends say they saw the seventeen year old lying on the ground.

"There was probably a crowd of ten and a couple of women on the ground doing CPR," Esaw said.

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If you have a neighbor who lives next to you who hasn’t attended  any of the meeting this would be a good time to get them involved.  I really believe in this Neighborhood Watch, it works. What effects one will effect ALL.