Mother of a Buffalo mass shooting victim says she can still feel the pieces of a bullet embedded in his back when she cleans his wounds.
Personally, if I can still feel shrapnel, I'd get a new doctor.Mother of a Buffalo mass shooting victim says she can still feel the pieces of a bullet embedded in his back when she cleans his wounds
"As I clean his wounds, I can feel pieces of that bullet in his back," Zeneta Everhart told Congress Wednesday.
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The mother of a Buffalo shooting victim said her son, who was injured in the attack, said he still has pieces of the bullet under his skin.
Zaire Goodman, 21, was an employee at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York where a gunman opened fire last month, killing 10 people in what police have called an attack motivated by racist hate.
"My son Zaire has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back, and another on his left leg. Caused by an exploding bullet from an AR-15," Zeneta Everhart told Congress in a hearing on gun violence in the U.S. Wednesday.
"As I clean his wounds, I can feel pieces of that bullet in his back. Shrapnel will be left inside his body for the rest of his life," she continued.
She then called out politicians who refuse to act on gun violence in the country.
"I invite you to my home," she said, "to help clean Zaire's wounds so that you can see up close the damage that has been caused to my son and my community."
"As an elected official it is your duty to draft legislation that protects Zaire and all of the children and citizens in this country. Common-sense gun laws are not about your personal feelings or beliefs. You are elected because you have been chosen and trusted to protect us. But let me say here today: I do not feel protected," she said.