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Iowan paralyzed in 2015 shooting heads to 2020 Paralympic Games Share Updated: 6:32 PM CDT Jun 27, 2021 Share Updated: 6:32 PM CDT Jun 27, 2021
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Show Transcript These wheels have seen 24 year old Justin Fangs van through a lot a gold medal at the Pan American Games, a newly achieved world record and seated Javelin and soon Tokyo for the 2020 Paralympics. I never thought that would be an elite athlete. To understand why a man who holds a world record felt that way. You have to know his story. Justin was shot in this McDonald s parking lot in Anthony back in 2015, the bullet hit his spine, paralyzing him from the waist down. If I do drive by the place where you know everything happened, doesn t really bring up any bad emotions or anything because Justin is focused on his mission, which began at adaptive sports Iowa after he recovered, he started out in our track and field program and decided it was totally for him, Whether it s cycling,
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“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.”