1. In a Split Second: From Tragedy to Triumph with Jesus Christ
Introduction
My day started out like every other ordinary day by waking up, taking a shower, getting
dressed, having breakfast then heading off to work. The day was going like any other day at
work helping people by getting them the auto parts they needed, checking in the stock that
arrived that day, then restocking the store with things such as oil, oil filters, air filters, different
types of additives to help your vehicle improve its performance and sharing an occasional laugh
with a coworker. I got off early that day, so I could go home to get a shower, get dressed and
then go to pick up my friend Barry due to the fact that we were going to a concert that night.
We arrived before the concert started, so we hung out in the parking lot and talked with other
people who had arrived early for the concert also. Somehow, between the time when we
entered the concert venue and when the concert started my friend Barry and I got separated
from each other. We each had a hold of our own tickets, so I decided that I would go down to
the front of the venue where our seats were located. The first band onstage, Biohazard had
begun playing, but there was still no sign of my friend Barry. I noticed that there was an area
where there was a group of people slam dancing, so I decided to go down front and have some
fun while also getting closer to the band with hopes of catching either a guitar pick or possibly
one of the drummer’sdrumsticks.
I remember Biohazard finishing playing and then the next thing I remembered I was on top of
the crowd that pushed me forward towards the stage. The next thing that I remember was
that I was pulled off the crowd, then led by a group of guys, which due to legal agreements I
am unable to reveal the names of them or the people who pulled me off the crowd while
allowing me to land on the ground with all my weight. The next thing I knew I was led up a

2. few steps then pushed through a set of double doors to the outside and then was thrown down
on the ground. I stood up on my own then the three guys said to me, “Do you have a
problem?” I replied, “No, I don’t have a problem,” and the next thing they said to me was,
“Well you do now!”Then the next thing I knew the group of guys put my arms behind my back,
picked me up in the air, slammed me on the ground head first breaking my neck and then
continued to rough me up. Then they picked me up by my arms and legs, then I felt my right
foot hit the ground and then the next thing I knew was that my head dropped downward
causing two vertebraein my neck to slide over top of each other causing my spinal cord to be
cut which caused my body to lose all feeling from my chest down. They proceeded to carry me
what had felt like the length of a football field, dropping me face down in a mud puddle outside
of the gates. Fortunately, I was able to turn my head to the left one more time out of the mud
puddle so that I could breathe without drowning in the mud puddle. As they were walking back
into the concert venue I heard one of them yell out to me, “Now try to get up and walk!” The
next thing I remembered was seeing my friend Anthony kneeling down what looked like to me
at the time that he was a mile away from me, and he asked me,” Are you ok?”, and I replied to
him ,”No, they broke my neck”.
I also remember the paramedics surrounding me while asking me, “What’s
wrong?” I replied, “They broke my neck.” Then one of the paramedics asked me,
“How do you know your neck is broken?” since I was in respiratory arrest as loud
as I could I yelled to them, “They broke my neck, I heard it snap!” They then
turned me onto my side while putting a board behind my back, then stabilizing
my neck by putting a neck brace while also placing two blocks or either side of
my head and then strapping them down to prevent any further damage to my
spinal cord. While the paramedics were putting me into the ambulance I kept

3. repeating to them, “Please call my mother at [410]686-0384!” The next thing I
remember was waking up in Shock Trauma with a tubegoing down my throat, a
tube going up my nose, IV’s in both arms while the doctors were screwing
screws into both sides of my head so that they could stabilize my neck by putting
it into traction to align all of the vertebrae in my neck. At that moment I didn’t
realize that after all the bad things I had done in my life until that moment, Jesus
Christ was giving me a Second Chance at life. For