“So, he decided to take it upon himself to punish us, essentially.”
He pulled out a gun, pistol-whipped Justin’s friend, and held it to Justin’s head. The man’s wife came out of the restaurant and convinced him to stop.
For a moment.
“It wasn’t before we got back to the car that he started shooting. He hit me twice, missed me once, then shot my buddy twice.”
His friend turned out to be OK. Justin, however, knew his life was never going to be the same.
“It was immediate. Once the second bullet hit me, I was standing, and the next thing you know it was an unexplainable feeling of my whole spinal cord shaking. Immediately I crumpled down to the floor, fell, tried to get up and run, couldn’t move. That’s when I knew I was paralyzed.”