Weeks before graduating high school, he was shot and paralyzed. 7 years later, he walked across the stage to accept his college degree. 🎓
Seven years ago, the chance to walk at graduation was stripped from Khalil Watson, a Virginia man who was paralyzed from the neck down after being shot weeks before finishing high school.
On May 15, he earned an associate’s degree in pre-social work from Reynolds Community College in Richmond. The alleged shooter was found dead in an unrelated incident a week later, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “Going through the things that I’ve experienced, I feel like I’d be able to easily connect with and understand individuals who have similar or worse situations than mine,” he said.
Doctors at the Sheltering Arms Institute, a Richmond-based physical rehabilitation hospital, have helped Watson since his 2016 injury, according to therapy services manager Christina Smith.Exoskeletons are wearable robotic devices that perform movements like walking for people with an injury or disease who lack voluntary movement, according to Smith.
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