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‘My Baby Was Shot’: Former PA HS Football Star Paralyzed After Gunman Opens Fire Outside Home ‘My Baby Was Shot’: Former PA HS Football Star Paralyzed After Gunman Opens Fire Outside Home
‘My Baby Was Shot’: Former PA HS Football Star Paralyzed After Gunman Opens Fire Outside Home A rising football star from Pennsylvania has been left paralyzed after he was gunned down outside his home in a shocking overnight attack. Michael Blidi Jr., a 2023 graduate of Milton Hershey School, was shot on the front sidewalk of his Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, home early Thursday, May 29. The unknown shooter pulled up in a vehicle, got out, and opened fire around 12:32 a.m., hitting the 19-year-old in the abdomen before fleeing, according to the police. He was left critically injured with a spinal cord wound, paralyzing him from the waist down, according to his father, Michael Blidi Sr. …
Virginia Infant Left Brain Damaged, Blind After Being Brutally Shaken By Soldier: DOJ Virginia Infant Left Brain Damaged, Blind After Being Brutally Shaken By Soldier: DOJ
Virginia Infant Left Brain Damaged, Blind After Being Brutally Shaken By Soldier: DOJ A Virginia soldier violently shook a crying newborn until she flipped and landed on her head—then lied about it, leaving the child with permanent brain damage and blindness, officials said. A former US Army soldier based at Fort Belvoir has pleaded guilty to brutally shaking a 16-day-old infant, causing severe injuries that left her legally blind and permanently brain damaged, according to federal prosecutors. Austin Blair Johnson, 35, entered the guilty plea on Friday, May 30, in US District Court in Alexandria, the US Attorney’s Office announced. Johnson was serving active duty when the …
PA Woman Permanently Paralyzed After Drunk Driver 3X Legal Limit Strikes Couple: DA PA Woman Permanently Paralyzed After Drunk Driver 3X Legal Limit Strikes Couple: DA
PA Woman Permanently Paralyzed After Drunk Driver 3X Legal Limit Strikes Couple: DA A drunk driver who caused a serious head-on crash that left a woman permanently paralyzed and hospitalized two people has been sentenced to state prison, the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office announced on Friday, May 9. Gary L. Testerman Jr., 37, of the 100 block of Lancaster Pike South in Providence Township, was sentenced to two to 10 years in state prison after pleading guilty in December to a 2023 DUI crash that left one victim unable to walk again, Judge Jeffrey Conrad ruled. Testerman pleaded guilty to two counts of Felony Aggravated Assault by Vehicle While DUI, two counts …
8-Year-Old Paralyzed By Hit-Run Driver Captured After Several Weeks In PA: Cops 8-Year-Old Paralyzed By Hit-Run Driver Captured After Several Weeks In PA: Cops
8-Year-Old Paralyzed By Hit-Run Driver Captured After Several Weeks In PA: Cops A Pennsylvania man has been arrested in connection with a Feb. 4 hit-and-run that left an 8-year-old boy paralyzed, police said. Caleb Campbell, 22, was taken into custody on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, following an intensive investigation by Chester Police, authorities announced. He was arraigned the following day and ordered to be held on $500,000 cash bail. On Feb. 4, at approximately 4 p.m., Chester Police responded to reports of a juvenile pedestrian struck by a vehicle, at 9th Street and Tilghman Street, that fled the scene. Officers found the victim, identified by family as 8-year-old …
Bartender Left Paralyzed In Break-In Shooting At PA Home Bartender Left Paralyzed In Break-In Shooting At PA Home
Bartender Left Paralyzed In Break-In Shooting At PA Home One minute, Dom Travis-Bey was getting ready to call it a night in his Upper Darby home. The next, he was on his dining room floor, nearly incapacitated. The 28-year-old Philadelphia native came to around 3 a.m., and tried to stand up. That's when he realized, he'd been shot three times. Travis-Bey, a bartender at Street Light Kitchen in Drexel Hill, mustered up all of his strength, crawled over to his front porch and began calling for help up and down Greenwood Avenue.  About 20 minutes later, he had the attention of a police officer driving up the block, who called an ambulance. The l…
Kevin Neary Dies 12 Years After Violent Philadelphia Robbery Kevin Neary Dies 12 Years After Violent Philadelphia Robbery
Kevin Neary Dies 12 Years After Violent Philadelphia Robbery Kevin Neary, a well-known Philadelphian whose recovery from a life-altering attack inspired his community, died Monday, Feb. 20, his loved ones announced on his website.  Kevin was a young man in his 20s when he was shot in an armed robbery in the Northern Liberties in November 2011, according to his online bio.  The bullet punctured his spinal cord at the C5 level and percussed up to affect the C1 level, leaving Kevin "largely paralyzed" from the neck down. But his indomitable spirit and the embrace of his neighbors carried him through, loved ones wrote in his obituary. …
Paralyzed In Bike Crash, Former 76er + NJ Net Opens Up On Suicidal Thoughts Paralyzed In Bike Crash, Former 76er + NJ Net Opens Up On Suicidal Thoughts
Paralyzed In Bike Crash, Former 76er + NJ Net Opens Up On Suicidal Thoughts A former NBA player has opened up about his battle against suicidal thoughts in an interview with "Sports Illustrated." Standing at 7 feet and 6 inches tall, Shawn Bradley, 49 -- who spent time with the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets -- told the outlet that while his height once put him at an advantage, it has become a hindrance to life in a wheelchair. Bradley was hit from behind while riding his bicycle near his home in St. George, Utah, in January 2021, resulting in a traumatic spinal cord injury in his neck that left him paralyzed from the chest down. “I don’t know how I can ea…