Man Survives Gunshot While Taking Out Trash
Man Survives Gunshot While Taking Out Trash: According to a recent report, 42-year-old Michael Thomas, a newlywed father, is grateful to God for saving his life after being shot while taking out the trash while cleaning his Norcross, Georgia, home.
Michael Thomas said that “I’m just glad to be alive. My family could be making my funeral arrangements,” “Like I say, God was with me.”
Thomas, who was shot in the right leg, told the news outlet that he was taking trash to a dumpster at the Grove Point Apartments on Jimmy Carter Boulevard on Sept. 9 when two young men approached him.
“They said, ‘Oh, we just sitting here chilling.’ I said, ‘Well, if y’all don’t mind, just move off in front of our breezeway.’ … And they were like, ‘Alright, but you don’t know who you’re talking to,'” Thomas told Fox 5
“The next thing I remember is being hit in the head. I grabbed the person, the biggest person, and we fell on the ground,” Thomas said . “And he was hollering to get him off me. After that, the guy shot at my head. Thank God it missed.”
Thomas said the bullet missed his face, but it ricocheted off the pavement and grazed his face. He said the attackers were determined to hurt him, and one of them shot him in the leg.
“He then turned around and shot me in the leg twice,” he said. “The bullet went through my right leg and then into my groin area.”
According to the witness “the men pistol-whipped Thomas before shooting him. He further noted to the network that the man shot at his head twice”. He also recalled a third man being with his attackers.
He tried to shoot me in my head twice, but both of the bullets bounced off the rock. And the third person that was with them took off running. I guess he didn’t know that was going to happen, and then he turned around and shot me in my right leg twice,” Thomas recalled.
Gwinnett Police Cpl. Ryan Winderweedle said the shooting appears to be a “crime of opportunity” beacuse Thomas’ attackers did not steal anything he said. “I don’t know of any other prior at this particular complex.”
Thomas, who now has to use a walker and still has a bullet lodged in his leg, said he was traumatized by the attack.
“You won’t be expecting something like that to happen because you asked somebody to move out of the way,” he explained. “I get sad to sit on my porch because I feel like I’m not safe.”
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