In The Line of Fire

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Speaker 5 I I was so proud when I became a police officer.

Speaker 6 Police Officer Isabella Levadina.

Speaker 5 I knew that it was not a job that a lot of people can do,

Speaker 5 and it made me feel so good that I could go out there and do that.

Speaker 5 I knew that I wanted to do something that was going to make a difference and that I could help people.

Speaker 7 I met Isabella on an accident.

Speaker 5 I knew that he was a fireman and was wearing all his fire gear and every girl thinks that's attractive, or most women.

Speaker 7 I thought, how cool is this, this beautiful little petite girl that's

Speaker 7 You know,

Speaker 7 a police officer.

Speaker 7 It was literally love at first sight.

Speaker 5 He seemed like he would be really kind.

Speaker 5 In October of 2009, Nick and I were taking an EMT class together.

Speaker 7 I said, why don't you come over to my grandmother's house? We can have dinner and

Speaker 7 after dinner we can study together.

Speaker 5 I really felt comfortable in that house.

Speaker 5 There was just a really warm feeling. I'm sure the people that lived there, you know, Nick's family, had a lot to do with why I felt that way.

Speaker 7 Isabella and I finished studying around 12.30.

Speaker 5 Nick always walked me outside to watch me get in the car, make sure I was safe.

Speaker 7 I walked her out to the car.

Speaker 7 And she put away her gun and her bulletproof vest.

Speaker 5 I went back to give Nick a hug goodbye. It was only a matter of

Speaker 5 a minute

Speaker 5 before I heard Tyre squealing.

Speaker 7 I remember

Speaker 7 her eyes getting really big

Speaker 7 and I see the fear in her eyes.

Speaker 7 And I turn.

Speaker 7 And right as I'm turning, there's two black males

Speaker 7 walking really fast at us with their guns drawn.

Speaker 5 One of them said, give me whatever you got.

Speaker 5 And I said, I don't have anything. I can't give them my car keys because I have a gun in the car.

Speaker 7 And right away they point towards my grandmother's house.

Speaker 5 One of the guys said, who's in the house?

Speaker 7 I said, please leave. There's women and children in that house.

Speaker 5 I knew that there was two little boys in there.

Speaker 5 I knew that Nick's grandmother and aunt was sleeping inside.

Speaker 5 I knew that it wasn't going to end there. I knew that they weren't just going to leave.

Speaker 5 Then they directed us at gunpoint to go inside.

Speaker 5 Right when we get into the house, they became very angry. It was,

Speaker 5 put your head on the ground. I'll you

Speaker 7 they're gonna kill us all

Speaker 5 my mind just went into police mode

Speaker 5 what am I gonna do to keep everybody in this house safe

Speaker 5 and get them out

Speaker 5 We got down on our knees in the hallway, and it's a very narrow, long hallway, and we were facing the wall.

Speaker 5 I was constantly

Speaker 5 peeking at them, trying to memorize their features, what they were wearing,

Speaker 5 any kind of description I could give to the police.

Speaker 5 One of them was wearing a

Speaker 5 red hoodie and dark pants.

Speaker 5 The other one was wearing a

Speaker 8 black hoodie.

Speaker 5 The guy in the black hoodie kneeled down behind me and he leaned over and

Speaker 5 I could feel his breath

Speaker 5 on my ear and

Speaker 5 in a very sexual way grabbed my butt. At that point,

Speaker 5 I started

Speaker 5 to think

Speaker 5 I'm going to be raped tonight. I started to prepare myself to be raped.

Speaker 7 I remember getting so angry,

Speaker 7 and I tried to get up a little bit, and right away stuck the gun in my head and said, I'll blow your brains out.

Speaker 7 He made me feel

Speaker 7 just

Speaker 4 really

Speaker 4 small.

Speaker 7 I remember seeing the guy in the red hoodie go upstairs.

Speaker 7 My grandmother was there.

Speaker 7 My Aunt Rosie.

Speaker 7 And my cousin Gina was there with her kids, Ben and Sam.

Speaker 8 I'm not sure what time it was.

Speaker 8 And I heard my daughter Gina crying at the foot of my bed.

Speaker 8 and I immediately woke up and I said to Gina are you sick because she had been in the hospital and when I turned to my left I saw a man in a red hoodie next to my bed with a gun and he was telling me to get up

Speaker 4 he

Speaker 8 Pointed the gun at Gina and said, get the TV

Speaker 8 By that time Gina was crying and said,

Speaker 8 I can't lift it. It's too heavy.
He told her that he was going to shoot her if she did not pick up that TV.

Speaker 8 Gina was diagnosed at 19 with stomach cancer.

Speaker 8 From being sick when she was younger, she had a chronic illness. And so a couple times a year, she would end up in the hospital overnight.

Speaker 8 That night, I went to the hospital to pick Gina up, talked her in to coming to spend the night.

Speaker 8 She really didn't want to.

Speaker 8 In all the times, in all the years

Speaker 8 that I brought Gina home from the hospital, this was the only time that I brought her to my house.

Speaker 5 I saw Gina carrying this large, older television down the stairs. And the guy in the red hoodie had the gun pointed to her back following her down

Speaker 5 and

Speaker 5 once she got downstairs and

Speaker 5 knelt down next to me

Speaker 5 all she wanted

Speaker 5 all she asked was if it was okay if she could check on her kids

Speaker 5 they just she held back

Speaker 5 I'll kill you, bitch. Shut up.

Speaker 5 Put your head on the ground.

Speaker 5 Tears were rolling down her face, and

Speaker 5 she looked directly at me and she said, Oh my god, Isabella, please help.

Speaker 5 And I felt so

Speaker 5 helpless.

Speaker 5 I was playing scenarios in my head

Speaker 5 of how I can

Speaker 5 get my gun out of the car and help people.

Speaker 5 I just kept trying to think of a way.

Speaker 5 Rose and Ida were brought downstairs.

Speaker 5 One of the gunmen directed Gina to go down in the basement with him. I believed that they were going to rape her down there, and I stood up and I turned around and I said, Gina, you stay here.

Speaker 5 I'll go down there.

Speaker 5 After I stood up, they said, everyone go down in the basement.

Speaker 5 I thought I was going to die. I thought everyone was going to die.
And that was my breaking point.

Speaker 5 I thought, I'm not going to let this happen. I'm not going to go out that way.

Speaker 5 I looked down the barrel of the gun and

Speaker 5 with everything that I had in me, I

Speaker 5 lunged towards

Speaker 5 the guy with the black hoodie and began to fight.

Speaker 8 He was airborne into the front door. She literally threw him into the air.

Speaker 8 At that point, Nicholas jumped up.

Speaker 7 The guy in the red hoodie, I'm wrestling with him. It happened so fast.

Speaker 8 I ran out the door, and as soon as the door slammed, I heard pow, pow, bam, bam, bam.

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Speaker 7 I remember hearing a bunch of gunfire.

Speaker 4 Pop, pop, pop.

Speaker 8 And I thought, should I go back in there? I gotta try and get help. I gotta...
I have to try to get the police here.

Speaker 8 I did not know who had survived or

Speaker 8 who had died.

Speaker 8 I started just running up to random doors, screaming and pounding on the doors, begging for somebody to open the door.

Speaker 8 Nobody would open their door.

Speaker 8 I just kept running. I'd run down one set of steps and run up another set.

Speaker 8 Please let me in.

Speaker 7 I turn

Speaker 7 and all I see is Isabella down on the floor in a fetal position. And the guy in the black hoodie is standing right over her, just shooting her, shooting her, and shooting her.

Speaker 5 I looked down.

Speaker 5 And I

Speaker 8 saw blood on

Speaker 5 my t-shirt. And at that point, I realized that I had been shot in the chest.

Speaker 7 Then I feel an explosion from my neck. And then right after that, I can feel warm blood just dripping down the whole front of my chest.

Speaker 7 Then they were gone.

Speaker 7 They must have ran out of the house.

Speaker 5 I remember people screaming, where's the cell phone? We don't have a cell phone. Nobody could find the cell phone to call 911.

Speaker 5 Ida was screaming, where's Rose? They took Rose.

Speaker 11 I couldn't find Rosie and I panicked.

Speaker 11 I don't know where my daughter is. They must have taken her.
Where's Rose? Where's Rose?

Speaker 8 Finally, I ran to the end of the street and there was was a light on.

Speaker 8 And I saw a woman in there and I was begging and screaming for her to open the door and

Speaker 4 let me in.

Speaker 8 But she wouldn't let me in.

Speaker 7 I remember Isabella crawling towards me saying, Nick, Nick, I can't breathe.

Speaker 7 I said, Bella, Bella, everything's gonna be okay. Just stay with me.
Keep your eyes open and keep breathing.

Speaker 7 And I said, hold on one second, because I saw...

Speaker 7 I saw Gina

Speaker 7 laying there.

Speaker 7 Her eyes are wide open.

Speaker 8 I kept thinking maybe she passed out or they knocked her out.

Speaker 7 And her son, Sam,

Speaker 4 was

Speaker 7 right behind me and said, Nick, is

Speaker 7 my mommy okay?

Speaker 7 I said, honey, she's okay. She fainted.
She's going to be okay.

Speaker 7 I didn't know what else to say to him.

Speaker 7 While all this chaos is going on in the house, somehow Sam is able to find a cell phone and he makes a call to 911.

Speaker 7 Come on.

Speaker 7 Is this 911?

Speaker 7 Can I help you? We've got three people shot and we've been robbed.

Speaker 4 Did they come into your home?

Speaker 4 They came into my grandma's. I'm in my grandma's.
We're at 902, Hickory.

Speaker 5 It just began to get

Speaker 5 more difficult for me to breathe.

Speaker 5 My eyes kept closing. My head kept dropping.

Speaker 7 Philip, hang in there.

Speaker 7 There's an ambulance on the way.

Speaker 7 Just stay with me. Stay with me.

Speaker 8 Then I heard sirens, and I thought, I'm just gonna run back to the house because thank God the police are finally here.

Speaker 13 We see a female running down the street in her nightgown. She's waving her hands over her head.
She states over and over again, my God, they're shot.

Speaker 12 Everybody's shot.

Speaker 13 I'm yelling to the female. How many are shot? Are the suspects gone? All she keeps saying is they're shot.

Speaker 12 She's a police officer. She's shot.

Speaker 13 And at that point, I ran as fast as I I could towards that home.

Speaker 13 The night watch sergeant was on the scene and he just turned and looked and said, it's Izzy.

Speaker 13 I knew immediately he was referring to Officer Levadina.

Speaker 12 I wasn't sure how bad she was hit.

Speaker 6 Once I got through the door, There was a look of relief on her face that there was police officers there.

Speaker 8 It was chaos. There were police cars and paramedics and ambulance.

Speaker 7 I said, look, my cousin, go get my cousin.

Speaker 8 I just remember bringing Isabelle out on a gurney, bringing Nick out.

Speaker 8 Where's Gina? Why aren't they bringing Gina out?

Speaker 8 I just had a really, really bad feeling.

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Speaker 15 I always hated bullies. And criminals are bullies.

Speaker 15 My pager went off. The text message on the pager was that A police officer had been shot.
You know, I knew I had to get to the scene right away.

Speaker 15 And I knew that responsibility was going to fall heavily on me to make sure that everything got done properly. And as I'm walking up, I'm seeing officers walking away from the scene.
Some are crying

Speaker 15 and all have that like stunned look on their face because a police officer just got shot. I felt a lot of pressure

Speaker 15 to not make any mistakes.

Speaker 15 I immediately assigned two detectives to process the crime scene. I needed to assign detectives to take care of those two small kids.

Speaker 15 I needed to make sure they get with somebody that's going to comfort them.

Speaker 15 These little kids that were there, they're defenseless.

Speaker 15 Gina Stallis

Speaker 15 was defenseless.

Speaker 5 When I woke up from my first surgery at the hospital,

Speaker 5 they told me that Gina didn't make it.

Speaker 5 And I had this

Speaker 5 overwhelming sense of

Speaker 5 guilt.

Speaker 5 Maybe if

Speaker 5 I would have trained a little bit harder and

Speaker 5 taking a gun away from somebody, maybe if I would have done a better job,

Speaker 5 that she'd still be here.

Speaker 8 The

Speaker 8 really

Speaker 8 didn't know until I told them the next morning that their mom had died, although I believe that Sam already knew that.

Speaker 8 He saw a lot, way too much for a little boy that's 10 years old.

Speaker 8 She was a single mom. She loved being a mom to those two boys.
I mean Gina was all they had. She did everything for them.

Speaker 8 Sam and Ben know how wonderful Gina was, but most of us get to experience that for our whole life about how great our mom is.

Speaker 8 And

Speaker 8 they just won't have that.

Speaker 15 I sent two detectives to St.

Speaker 15 Louis University Hospital to interview Nick and Isabel if possible so we can get some information, better descriptions or anything else that we can glean to help find these guys.

Speaker 12 Nick was being tended to by doctors

Speaker 13 and I asked if he could give me more of a description. Now that he's had a little bit of time,

Speaker 13 the doctor yelled, no, nobody's coming in here. Nick yelled right back.
No, she's coming in. She's getting the description.

Speaker 7 So I told one of the detectives that they both had sneakers on, dark pants.

Speaker 7 One individual had a red hoodie and one individual had a black hoodie. The individual with the red hoodie had had two gold teeth.

Speaker 7 I was shot three times

Speaker 7 and I have one bullet that went just under my ear

Speaker 7 and it traveled

Speaker 7 through the back of my neck,

Speaker 7 hit my spinal cord. The doctor came in and said we were not going to operate on you.
It's going to be too risky. You could get paralyzed.

Speaker 7 And now the bullet sits vertically up and down in front of my C1, so in this area.

Speaker 7 So, and it looks like about that big.

Speaker 6 A short time after the robbery at 902 Hickory, a man goes into the ER at Barnes Hospital here in St. Louis.

Speaker 6 He's there because he's been shot in his hand.

Speaker 6 He tells the people in the ER that he's a victim himself. And he tells them he was shot during a botched robbery, basically.

Speaker 6 The police were notified that there's a gunshot victim at Barnes Hospital ER.

Speaker 6 A very smart and astute X-ray tech takes note of several things while she is treating him.

Speaker 6 She notices that he has gold teeth.

Speaker 6 And he starts talking to her and he asks her to take away his red hooded sweatshirt because it's covered in blood. The x-ray technician told the police officer what she observed.

Speaker 6 She told him that she just felt something was not right.

Speaker 15 I got information that there was a potential suspect that was being admitted to Barnes with an injury to his hand and that he fit the description of one of the people involved in this crime.

Speaker 6 When they walk out the front doors of the ER, police officers see the man in the red hooded sweatshirts car parked out front. And standing right next to the car is another man.

Speaker 6 The police officer follows this man into Forest Park.

Speaker 6 And he sees him throw an object to the ground. And he feels that this man is involved.
And he does a search of this man and he finds jewelry belonging to Ida Rask.

Speaker 6 And he's put under arrest.

Speaker 6 Another officer is brought in to help look for the object that was thrown down to the ground.

Speaker 6 And as they search that area in Forest Park where that man walked, they find the black gun.

Speaker 6 After the man in the park is arrested, he tells the police his name and it is determined that he was the man in the black hooded sweatshirt and his name is Mario Coleman.

Speaker 6 The man inside the hospital was the man wearing the red hooded sweatshirt and his name is Liddale Nathan.

Speaker 15 Getting people convicted in court, somebody has to stand up and say, that's the one who did it. I saw him do it.
It was very, very important that Nick or Isabella identified them because

Speaker 4 Rose

Speaker 15 and Ida Rass could not identify him.

Speaker 5 When Sergeant Engelhurts came to the hospital and showed me the photo lineup, I

Speaker 5 felt like I was carrying around the weight of the world.

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Speaker 5 I remember one of the doctors telling me that I

Speaker 5 had been shot three times point blank to the front side of my body.

Speaker 5 And after falling down to the ground, I was shot two more times.

Speaker 5 I felt like I fell into a black hole

Speaker 5 mentally. I

Speaker 5 didn't think that I would ever

Speaker 5 feel any better.

Speaker 15 Isabel is laying in bed.

Speaker 22 She has IVs attached to her.

Speaker 15 She has hard monitors attached to her. There's beeping and buzzing of the machines.

Speaker 15 I was just very, very nervous talking to her because I admire so much what she did.

Speaker 15 I told Isabella that we're really confident that we had the people responsible. But I told her, hey, you know what you got to do.
You got to point to the guy.

Speaker 5 I was very fearful that

Speaker 5 I wasn't going to be able to do it.

Speaker 15 I could see her eyes start to well up with tears.

Speaker 5 I still had so many different emotions.

Speaker 15 I show Isabella two sheets. Mario Coleman's on one.
Liddell Nathan's on another one.

Speaker 5 I do remember that there was different faces.

Speaker 5 They all had similar features.

Speaker 5 I instantly pointed to each one of them.

Speaker 5 and said, these are the guys.

Speaker 5 Mario Coleman is the guy that was wearing the black hoodie and that had the silver gun.

Speaker 5 He was the shooter.

Speaker 5 And Liddale Nathan Jr. is the guy that was wearing the red hoodie.

Speaker 6 These two men went into this house and they literally terrorized four generations of this family.

Speaker 6 Mario Coleman and Liddale Nathan were charged acting together in this crime. They were both charged with murder in the first degree.

Speaker 23 As a prosecutor, every case becomes personal to you.

Speaker 23 Rose had called me and asked if I would talk to Sam, who was nine at the time.

Speaker 8 We were sitting in the waiting room. John came out to get Sam.

Speaker 8 And I said, would you like for me to come in? He said, no, Graham, I think I will just go and talk to him by myself.

Speaker 23 He came down in the school uniform and he sat down and he pulled out his note card. He had this little three by five note card and he had a series of five or six questions written on the note card.

Speaker 23 He wanted to know, you know, the strengths and weaknesses of our case. He wanted to know what the punishments potentially could be.

Speaker 23 You don't want to over-promise something to a child because they're looking at you as the adult. They want to trust you and you don't want to violate that trust.
He's been through so much.

Speaker 6 Liddale Nathan was tried first.

Speaker 23 Liddale Nathan was 16 at the time, but a juvenile court judge decided to certify him to stand trial as an adult.

Speaker 6 Because he was only 16 years old, there's only limited information that we have about him. At trial, his defense attorney tried to talk about his rough upbringing and how he had a hard life.

Speaker 6 However, that evidence was really kept out of the trial by the trial judge.

Speaker 5 After hearing the defense opening, I became very angry.

Speaker 5 They pretty much said that because of me, the gun went off seven different times.

Speaker 5 It's a horrible feeling, always questioning myself if I did a good enough job that night, if I did the right thing, and then to have

Speaker 5 the blame

Speaker 5 be put on me.

Speaker 5 It was very emotional.

Speaker 7 We had been in court all week. Finally, the jury came back with a verdict.
It only took them three hours.

Speaker 7 It was a guilty verdict.

Speaker 5 I knew in my head that it was a temporary feeling of relief, but

Speaker 5 I still allowed myself to feel it.

Speaker 6 After Liddale Nathan was found guilty, we knew it wasn't over. We still had to go to trial for Mario Coleman.
Mario Coleman was no stranger to the criminal justice system.

Speaker 6 At the time of the murder, he was on probation for two different felony cases.

Speaker 8 It makes me really angry that a person that has done this type of crime twice gets a third chance.

Speaker 8 because my daughter, Gina, had never committed a crime and she didn't get any chance.

Speaker 5 When I first seen Mario Coleman, it was shocking. He looked completely different than he looked that night.

Speaker 5 It's like my mind couldn't even really grasp

Speaker 5 that

Speaker 5 This person tried to kill me. This person killed Gina

Speaker 6 Mario Coleman's defense is that he was inside the house at 9-02 Hickory.

Speaker 6 However, he pointed the finger at Liddale Nathan and said Liddale Nathan was the man holding the silver gun and ultimately shot Gina Stallis.

Speaker 7 There was a lot of times in that courtroom when I wanted to like just jump up and say this is all a lie. None of this that he's saying is true.

Speaker 23 The challenge with respect to Mario Coleman's case was our eyewitnesses were all identifying him as being the shooter. However, the DNA on the murder weapon was to the juvenile Liddale Nathan.

Speaker 23 Our belief was that they were switching guns constantly throughout this particular case and that Liddale Nathan was the last to have touched that gun.

Speaker 5 I really, really wanted Mario Coleman

Speaker 5 to never, ever come outside of prison because there was no doubt in my mind that if he was ever released, released, he would kill again.

Speaker 7 When we were waiting for the verdict for Mario Coleman, it seemed like minutes were hours.

Speaker 8 What time is it? What time is it? What time is it?

Speaker 23 There's always that risk.

Speaker 4 They could walk him out of the courtroom.

Speaker 18 Does the jury reach a verdict?

Speaker 5 Yes, ma'am. I was trying to look at the jurors, just try to read something.

Speaker 8 Oh my God.

Speaker 8 What are they going to say?

Speaker 6 We, We, the jury, find the defendant, Mario Coleman, guilty of murder in the first degree.

Speaker 7 There was a sense of relief.

Speaker 5 I was sitting next to Sam.

Speaker 5 He was so nervous. He bites his nails when he's nervous.
I could see his whole body just kind of sink back and relax and just this big smile come across his face.

Speaker 5 I felt like justice was served.

Speaker 5 I had no intention of giving a victim impact statement at Murray Coleman's sentencing.

Speaker 5 At the very last minute, I decided that I am going to get up there and say something to him.

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Speaker 23 During the sentencing of Mario Coleman, traditionally what happens is the victim's family has a right to address the court or to address the defendant. When Rose stepped up,

Speaker 23 she was not forgiving.

Speaker 8 You came to terrorize us. So really, you're nothing but a coward.
I'm not going to talk about my daughter to you. It would be disrespectful to her.

Speaker 8 And I hope you rot in hell because I'm living in my own hell.

Speaker 8 Well, I'm sorry, you're at all.

Speaker 7 I have to ask you to

Speaker 4 be moderate.

Speaker 8 Well,

Speaker 8 he doesn't deserve moderate.

Speaker 23 I was right there with Rose.

Speaker 23 I could understand where she was coming from, and I completely agree with what she said.

Speaker 8 I felt great. I needed to say that to him.
Somebody kills your child.

Speaker 4 I

Speaker 8 it's this it's an indescribable pain.

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Speaker 23 just stay right here. Take your time.

Speaker 5 I just wanted to tell you that

Speaker 5 I feel bad for you.

Speaker 5 It doesn't bring any joy to me to know that you're going to a really horrible place for the rest of your life. Like, that doesn't make me feel any better.

Speaker 5 I also wanted to tell you that what you did do for me that night after taking Gina's life, after completely turning everybody else's life upside down, you gave me a whole new family

Speaker 5 that I didn't have before.

Speaker 5 I've gained so much,

Speaker 5 and now

Speaker 5 you've lost everything.

Speaker 5 And you also took a really good police officer off the streets.

Speaker 15 That's all I have to say.

Speaker 5 It's not about finding the perfect words.

Speaker 5 It's just about standing up there and having the opportunity to

Speaker 5 tell them

Speaker 5 what it what his actions did to your life.

Speaker 5 One of the hardest things for me to deal with is is the loss of my job.

Speaker 5 Being a police officer was

Speaker 5 the

Speaker 5 proudest

Speaker 5 thing.

Speaker 5 It was,

Speaker 5 I was

Speaker 5 more proud walking across that stage getting my badge than I'd ever been before in my life.

Speaker 5 I really tried to

Speaker 5 get healthy enough to return.

Speaker 5 unfortunately, I just

Speaker 5 wasn't the same. It

Speaker 5 I never got that fire back.

Speaker 5 When a police officer retires, they have what they call a final roll call.

Speaker 23 Prepare for inspection, sergeants, inspect your officers.

Speaker 5 My final roll call meant a lot to me. It was

Speaker 5 my last day of doing what I love to do.

Speaker 5 It was the last time that

Speaker 5 I would be standing with my

Speaker 5 police family.

Speaker 5 At my final roll call,

Speaker 5 I was given an award from the mayor's office.

Speaker 23 Now, therefore, I, Francis G.

Speaker 9 Slay, Mayor of the City of St. Louis, do hereby proclaim February 6th, 2012 as Police Officer Isabella Lovadina Day in the City of St.
Louis.

Speaker 15 I think Isabella Lovedina is one of the bravest people I've ever known.

Speaker 15 It's like somebody jumping on a hand grenade. I mean, she was willing to sacrifice her life for all those people.

Speaker 7 At this point, Isabella and I aren't dating.

Speaker 7 And I mean although I might not see her or we might not see each other, as long as she's happy, it makes me happy. I just want the best for her.

Speaker 7 She's a part of the family now.

Speaker 8 I'm a mom again.

Speaker 8 So

Speaker 8 my life has changed really for the good. I mean, I'm really happy to have Sam Salmon Ben.
It's hard to get back into the, you know,

Speaker 8 soccer and baseball and school and homework.

Speaker 8 But I wouldn't change one thing about that.

Speaker 7 So I was in a car accident and I had hit my head against the windshield

Speaker 7 and then a couple days later I was sitting at the edge of my bed and I feel a lump in the back of my throat and over a few minutes this lump gets bigger and bigger and I sort of bend over and I cough

Speaker 7 and when I do this object flies out of my mouth mouth. And when I bend over to grab it, I realize it's the bullet-the same bullet that was lodged in my cervical spine.

Speaker 7 It had finally worked its way out through, I guess, the base of my throat.

Speaker 7 I looked at how small this bullet was

Speaker 7 and just couldn't believe how one little bullet had killed my cousin Gina.

Speaker 7 But at the same time, it's

Speaker 7 it's made me think a lot about how Isabella and I are a miracle.

Speaker 5 I look at my life differently now.

Speaker 5 I see how fragile it really is and

Speaker 5 how it can be taken away

Speaker 5 so fast and

Speaker 5 without any notice.

Speaker 5 On my birthday,

Speaker 5 I thank God that

Speaker 5 I'm here and

Speaker 5 it makes my birthday that much more special.

Speaker 5 I don't have a

Speaker 5 a new career picked out. I do know I will continue to go to school until I find whatever it is.
And I still know that I want to help people. It's just going to be in a different way now.

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