Damion Cooper thought he'd finally forgiven his unknown shooter. Then he found himself sitting across from the young man while volunteering in a Baltimore prison.
So he gave in and sat angrily in the pew, listening as a pastor read a psalm that would change his life:"For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning."
"It got to the point where his life kept coinciding with my life a little bit too much," Cooper said.A newspaper clipping details Cooper's shooting in 1992.The young man listed a few acts. Then he started describing a time he and a friend followed a man off the number five bus. Cooper's blood ran cold. He loosened his tie and unbuttoned his shirt, peeling it back to reveal the scar above his heart."You shot me," he told the other man, who turned beet red, frozen with shock.
in Baltimore acting out in school. He wanted to make sure they didn't go down the same path as his attackers.
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