‘My community saved my life’: Bystander paralyzed in Brooklyn shooting speaks out
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Sam Metcalfe remembers the words of the stranger who comforted him after he was shot in the hip near his Brooklyn home, caught in a blaze of gunfire that killed a young man.
“God loves you,” the man told Metcalfe repeatedly, in a scene captured on video. “You’re gonna be OK.”