One man’s life changed in the blink of an eye; one moment, he was in his car after work, the next, he'd been shot and narrowly escaped death. According to him, the months spent recovering changed his career perspective, and over a decade later, he started his surgical residency at the same hospital where his life was saved.
In July 2007, then-22-year-old Kevin Morton Jr., from Detroit, Michigan, was a student at Oakland University and working in a Detroit Arby’s. On a seemingly ordinary night, while sitting in his car after his shift, a stranger appeared, coldly shot him in the stomach, and robbed him. The man tried to drive himself to the police station a mile away but passed out and crashed after half a mile. “All I could think about was my younger sisters, It’s funny, but that’s the only thought I had. I kept thinking, ‘I have to stay alive for them,’” Morton told CNN.
