The Bad Astronomer's take on this story
Here:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/12/a-boy-claims-he-was-hit-by-a-meteorite/
Sounds like a hoax to me and a gullible press fueled the fire. Or at best
the kid got hit by something else and he interpreted it as a meteorite,
which the press proceeded to eat up as usual.
