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aggravated assault and armed robbery? $20 says that the victim was black and
the cops white. why not attempted murder?

"torresD" <torresd30@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uNIBd.11239$qf5.5563@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> Posted on Sat, Dec. 25, 2004
>
> http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/weird_news/10498262.htm
>  Man walks miles with bullet wound in head
> Associated Press
> FORT VALLEY, Ga. -
>
> A Fort Valley man walked nearly 2 miles with
> a bullet hole in his head after being shot in
> a robbery,
>
> determined to die in the presence
> of loved ones if that was his fate.
>
> Larry Taylor, 37,
> finally made it to his mother's house,
> but didn't realize she had moved away
> to a nursing home.
>
> Still,
> Taylor managed to eventually reunite with his
> family and spent Christmas recovering from his trauma.
>
> "If I was going to die,
> I wanted to make it home
> to Mama's and die there,"
> said Taylor,
>
> who was recuperating at his sister's house.
>
> Taylor told The Macon Telegraph he was
> walking to a friend's house around 9 p.m.
> Monday when a man approached him and asked
> to use his cell phone.
>
> "I said, 'No,'
>
> then he said he would take the phone,"
>
> he recounted.
>
> "I said, 'No,'
>
> then he pulled out the gun and shot me in the head.
>
> I didn't even know I was hit until
> I felt the blood coming down my face."
>
> Bleeding severely from the bullet
> wound over his left eye and the exit
> wound over his left ear,
>
> Taylor stumbled through the streets until
> he couldn't walk any farther and finally
> called police for help.
>
> His head remained swollen Thursday.
>
> "A half of a half of an inch
> lower and I would have been dead,"
>
> said Taylor,
> who was warned by doctors that he
> could suffer seizures as a result
> of his injury.
>
> Police later arrested 27-year-old Sammy
> Williams on Thursday and charged him with
> aggravated assault and armed robbery,
> Lt. Lawrence Spurgeon said.
>
> Taylor said he just wanted to get past
> the incident and spend some time with
> his family during the holidays.
>
> "I'm still getting visitors and
> phone calls and everything and
> thanking God."
>
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