Teen Struck By Lightning Standing In Garage

A teenager was recovering from a lightning strike that happened while he stood inside his own garage on Wednesday afternoon.

Stephon Owens, 15, was just about to push a button on the garage door opener when a surge of electricity shot through the house on Bell Meade drive in Douglas County, his parents told Channel 2 Action News reporter Eric Philips.

“They came in here to put the basketball hoop together and ….and that’s when it went through his arm,” said Sabrina Bryan, Owens' mother.

The teenager and his father were working to assemble a basketball net when the storm moved through, according to Bryan.

"It happened so fast. It was just an instant. Just to see the look in his eyes and hear him scream" said Richard Bryan, Owens' father.

Owens suffered no burns or scarring, according to his mother, and was released from the hospital on Thursday."I feel extremely blessed. I mean God left me on this earth. He could have just as easily taken me away so that I could have died," Owens told Channel 2 Action News reporter Diana Davis.

Neighbors living on the street said they saw the storm and then the lightning.

“A big thunder with a big beam. A big white beam of light that went through from the east all the way to the west. When it happened I left my master suite, came downstairs and told my kids to turn off the whole lights in the house,” said Cy Amadi