Eleven-year-old boy, hit by a stray bullet, celebrates elementary school graduation at hospital
BY GABRIELLE GUZ
Jayden Grant, an 11-year-old boy, had just stepped out of his barber shop in Crown Heights, ready for his fifth grade graduation the next day, when he was hit by a stray bullet on Schenectady Avenue. But that devastating incident didn’t stop him from receiving his elementary school diploma two weeks later.
Grant graduated from New Bridges Elementary School on July 8, during a ceremony held at Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park, surrounded by his family and friends, teachers, neighbors, city officials, anti-gun violence advocates, NYPD first responders and hospital staff.