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RSS Feeds`This is the day I almost died´: For Toronto shooting survivors, families and futures shattered
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

23 june 2017 20:05:58

 
`This is the day I almost died´: For Toronto shooting survivors, families and futures shattered
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


When a bullet tore into his chest, Carlton Cohen called his mom before he called 911. Cohen, then 33, had been watching the 2008 U.S. presidential election on TV when someone knocked on the door of his apartment in the city’s Moss Park area for the second time that night. When Cohen asked who was there, the shooter opened fire.Three bullets ripped through the door, one of them piercing his left side.“I said, ‘Mom, I’m shot.’ And she just began to scream . . . and after, she couldn’t cry, she began to moan,” Cohen said.He assured her he’d be OK, then called 911. Rushed to Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, he remembers a nurse saying two things before he lost consciousness. “She said, ‘The bullet is travelling.’ I didn’t know that bullets could travel in you,” Cohen recalled. “And after, she said, ‘He’s dying, we’re losing him.’ ”He begged God for a second chance before passing out.At least 682 people have been shot in Toronto during the past four and a half years (as of June 20), according to Toronto police statistics. Like Cohen, most won’t die; 91 per cent of shooting victims from 2013 to mid-2017 have survived their injuries.Although they emerge with their lives, rarely do survivors of shootings walk away without scars, both physical and emotional. And the impact doesn’t just hurt the victim — like the epicentre of an earthquake, the shock wave blasts outwards, washing over and consuming friends, family and community. To talk about shooting victims is to talk about loss, said Lindsay Upton, a program manager at Victim Services Toronto, which provides support for victims and witnesses of traumatic incidents and their families. Upton has worked for the agency for nearly 14 years. “When someone is shot, not only are their bones shattered by the bullet . . . their complete lives are shattered ...


 
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