HOUSTON – Residents in a west Houston neighborhood gathered Saturday morning to landscape the yard of a man who risked his life during the Memorial Drive shooting rampage that left two dead — including the gunman — in late May.
Byron Wilson, 30, is among those lucky enough to have survived the shooting after he ran out of his home to warn people to take shelter. In the mayhem, Wilson was shot in the leg and shoulder.
“I thought I was done for,” Wilson said. “There were pools of blood everywhere.”
After a month in the hospital, Wilson is alive and recovering.
“It’s like being reborn,” he said.
Wilson’s neighborhood volunteered to fix up as yard a thank-you for taking a bullet for the community.
“Faith in humanity is restored and people are truly good,” his wife Kendra Brant said.
Brant said he may begin walking again around Christmas time at the earliest.