16-year-old Nana Donkor was looking forward to the start of basketball season. Now, he's confined to a hospital bed after a shooting left a bullet lodged in his spine.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 10:22PMNana Donkor, 16, was looking forward to the start of basketball season. Now, the teen varsity starting point guard is confined to a hospital bed after a shooting left a bullet lodged in his spine, and his athletic future is up in the air.
"It should have been yesterday, my first game of the season. And tomorrow would have been my second game of the season," Nana said. ""I really do want to do want to get back. I felt like, my team is missing out on me right now." Nana plays high school basketball in Queens and was shot Sunday around 4 p.m., coming back from watching a football game in Brooklyn. "He really loved the basketball so much," said Nana's mom, Daniella Boakye. "He said 'damn, I ruined my basketball because of football,' because he went to watch football." Police say the shooter was targeting Nana's friend, who was standing next to him at a bus stop in Midwood, Brooklyn. "I heard the cock-back noise of a gun and this firing. And I remember just falling in slow motion," Nana told Eyewitness News.There are no arrests, and the investigation is ongoing. "The day it happened, Sunday, the doctor said that he was not going out, able to walk. He would be paralyzed," Boakye said."I believe in God. So after prayers and all that, I started getting hope that everything will be okay, is not going to be on the bed for ever is just a matter of time. But I know he will walk," Boakye said.
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