He Was Shot & A Hospital Saved His Life – See What Happened 9 Years Later

More Than Just a Graduation

On Graduation day, Morton asked Sheth-Zelmanski to hood him, an honor you’d usually expect to reserve for a close family member or mentor. But, she really was an important part of his life. She’d saved his life, and that wasn’t something he was ever going to forget. Again, she wept. She said she told him, “I’m old enough to be your mother. What more can a mother want from a son than their best?”

She may not have expected it of him, but he’d already decided that he was going to give back, in a professional as well as personal way.