A first-person account from Shaka Senghor describing being shot multiple times at age 17 in Detroit (on March 8). The speaker recounts ambulance services failing to arrive, being taken to hospital by a friend who had also experienced a prior shooting, and frames the incident as a major turning point in his life.
What, 13. Literally, like 13 years old. And so, you know, I stayed in that culture. And then when I was, like, 17 years old, I was standing March 8th. I'll never forget that day. I was standing on the corner, and I got into, like, a minor conflict. And then I got shot multiple times. And that was probably the most serious turning point in my life. After I got shot, they called Ambalands, and Ambalands never came. At this time. I'm on the west side of Detroit, and I'm just sitting on the porch bleeding. And my friend, he was like, look, I'm gonna have to take you to the hospital because Ambalanz is just not gonna come. And I remember getting in the car, and he's just like, you know, breathe. Like, you gotta take these deep breaths. You know, this is how you're gonna navigate the pain. And the reason he was able to do that, he had got shot the year prior, you know, so it's just like he got shot, his friend got killed.
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