Young Man Who Nearly Died From Gunshot Wounds Celebrates As He Finally Bags Varsity Degree

Cursory: Four years after he was shot in the neck and disabled, a young Black man has celebrated a major accomplishment, he recently graduated with his undergraduate degree from St. Augustine’s University in the US.

Before Howard Boone enrolled in St. Augustine’s University, he had never imagined life as a college student bedridden from the neck down.

Four years ago, he was shot in the neck and disabled when someone fired into a crowd. After defying the odds, Boone recently graduated with his bachelor’s degree.

With his assignments, emails, and research papers dictated painstakingly into the phone attached to the bed, where he lies collapsed from the neck down, he fought through the setbacks after the near-death experience to achieve the accomplishment.

He said: “I lost feeling… like, I lost everything. Everything I worked for just went away,” Boone said, per Spectrumlocal News.

Boone depended on a ventilator to breathe, but it didn’t stop him from accomplishing his quest to attain a university education. Before the incident, he desired a career in the military as a former member of the Army Reserves.

He used to jump from planes and planned on rising through the ranks of the military. Then, during a 2018 trip to South Carolina, the unfortunate happened.

Per Cbs17, someone started shooting into a crowd, and Boone, an innocent bystander, was hit in the neck. In the years confined to his bed, he took to poetry, writing on gun violence as a coping mechanism. ”It was almost like therapy,” he said.

While his dream of a military career is no longer possible, he graduated with a degree in Criminal Justice.

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