(CNN) Anthony Butler thought he was a dead man. The born and raised New Yorker was shot in the head on a street corner in the Bronx in September 2008. In the ambulance, he thought to himself: "Man, this is over. At the time, Butler was a 20-year-old who sold weed and had warrants out for his arrest forskipping court dates. But there was hope: the bullet in his brain had taken his vision, not his life.

Source: CNN April 12, 2019 12:45 UTC