An Orting man accused of firing a shotgun inside a pickup truck during his bachelor party and critically injuring his son’s teenage friend was ordered held on $10,000 bail Thursday.

Tirus Rushton, 39, pleaded not guilty to third-degree assault with a firearm sentencing enhancement and was ordered to surrender all weapons in his home.

He also must wear an electronic home monitoring device with an alcohol sensor and cannot have contact with the victim or the other four people present at the time of the shooting.

The 18-year-old victim was shot Friday night while riding in the bed of the pickup in the Wilkeson area. Shotgun pellets hit the teen in the head, cheek, eye and left arm.

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He was listed in critical condition Wednesday. Family members said he is improving but the teen now is blind in one eye.

Rushton planned to get married Saturday at a campsite and spent Friday evening with his son, the victim and three friends.

The group decided to go shooting in the woods and was driving down a dirt road when Rushton, who was in the passenger seat, shot out three windows in the pickup, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.

The victim was seated in the bed of the truck with two others.

Witnesses initially told detectives that pellets from the shotgun ricocheted off a tree and struck the teen and said the driver fired the gun.

Later they admitted Rushton was the shooter, but they wanted to protect him because it was his wedding day.

The victim’s family said they do not believe pellets ricocheted off a tree from the moving truck and struck the teen. They believe Rushton negligently fired the gun out the back window, and buckshot hit the victim.

Witnesses have lied, prosecutors wrote in charging papers, which prompted further investigation into what happened.

“The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department has been asked to conduct a follow-up investigation into these potentially false statements,” records show.

Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said detectives are looking into the possibility that the round did not ricochet off a tree.