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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."