The 12-year-old boy paralyzed by a robber's stray bullet as he was taking a piano lesson in Oakland last year had a message for the gunman Tuesday:
"I forgive you."
Christopher Rodriguez delivered his words after rolling in his wheelchair to the front of the Oakland courtroom where Jared Adams, 26, had just been sentenced to 70 years to life in prison. Then he shook the convicted man's hand.
That's a special young man. Read more.
According to the Paralysis Population survey the Foundation recently completed, there are 57,000 people living with spinal cord injury caused by violence in the U.S. That is 4% of the almost 1.3 million people in the country with SCI.
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