hijacking a mail truck. the rampage ended when the shooter was cornered and killed by police. a man who knows one of the people shot spoke with cnn affiliate kosa. he said that his friend actually had saved his life, performing cpr on him months earlier. all i know is that they were on their way home, him and his wife, and he got shot. i guess it went through the door of the car and shot him right in the, his side. and my shop foreman is in there right now, and he said his wife was just covered in blood, but he had made it to the hospital still talking and breathing. he was way out there in mission dor ah dough, in that area, i guess when it happened. just dropped to my knees and hit my head on the floor and started praying like you wouldn t believe, saying, you know, this can t happen to him. he saved my life.
he was a star on the high school basketball court, rather. big star, but he was actually living a lie. the young man many thought was a high school student wasn t, and he fooled a lot of people. eddie garcia, cnn affiliate kosa in odessa has more. reporter: for more than a year he successfully convinced school officials, students, even law enforcement that he was 16-year-old jerry joseph, an immigrant from haiti. i can t imagine not playing basketball right now. he flew under the radar in plain sight as a basketball star, even being featured in a news story after the devastating haiti earthquake. his coach, danny wright had sympathy and took him into his own home. two weeks ago rumors began to circulate that joseph may be older than the other boys and may not be exactly who he said he was. tuesday he was identified and