Anthony Butler decided to get into running, with the help of Achilles International. There, he met Jessie Rix and his life changed.
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. This is how I'm going to die."At the time, Butler was a 20-year-old who sold weed and had warrants out for his arrest for skipping court dates. He woke up the morning after he was shot handcuffed to a hospital bed.But there was hope: the bullet in his brain had taken his vision, not his life.Read MoreButler had a positive attitude, but he still struggled at times to adapt to life as a blind man.
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