- There's a feel, it's a feeling that's indescribable.
- I just got chills.
Carjackings gone wrong, attempted murder,
and all sorts of other unbelievable medical mayhem.
Today we are breaking down the insane survival story
and brutal injuries from a friend of mine, Anthony,
who was not only shot,
but lived through one of the craziest survival stories
I've personally known.
You're gonna want to hear this.
Alright, let's dive right in.
- He said "It's over," raised the gun,
and I just beelined.
Took off and I heard one shot.
- Hey everybody. Welcome.
I wanna introduce you to my friend Anthony.
He has a very interesting, kind of crazy story
that I almost didn't believe.
He needs to share it.
It is something that is probably what you would see
out of a movie or like an intense video game.
It made national headline news.
- We now turn to a guy who was just trying
to go to a football game.
- He was abducted at gunpoint.
- Then when he tried to run away,
he was shot from behind.
- The victim is in stable condition after a wild night.
- And Anthony has a good story to share.
Take us back to the beginning. Tell us what happened.
- I'm a big Ohio State fan.
Ohio State was playing in the national championship
against Clemson in 2019.
- [Announcer] OSU reclaims the league!
- So it was me and my good friend Mike,
and we were with two girls
that we've been having a friendship with.
Fast forward to after the game, we went back to the Airbnb.
- Woo this is nice.
- It was probably 1:00, 1:30 in the morning at the time.
Me and my other friend were talking,
like having a good time,
and we had a little bit of an argument
and it was like, "You know what?
I need to get outta the house, take a breather."
I went out to my car, put on some music that I like
and put the chair back.
It must have been maybe seven, eight minutes.
Heard a knock on the window.
It was a guy at my window and he was,
"Hey man, you're in my reserved parking spot."
- Okay.
- I rolled down the window halfway
and boom. - [Jordan] What?
- I had a gun pointed in my head.
Two other people came.
- [Jordan] Okay.
- And then they all put down ski masks.
- You were like, "They're gonna rob me."
- Instantly. It was a robbery. That's what I'm thinking.
They asked for my cell phone, my wallet, my keys to my Jeep.
I'm out of the car at this point.
I say, "Here, take everything."
One of them said, "No, mother-effer, you're coming with us."
Puts the gun in my head and forces me
into the back seat of my car.
I have a guy to my left that's pointing at a gun
at my temple here.
I have a guy that's in the front seat
who occasionally keeps turning around
and putting the gun to my forehead.
He put it in my mouth.
We're in the Jeep and we get to an ATM
and then we kept driving.
I think it ended up being like four or five total.
- Got it.
- Ended up being $840. - That's it?
- That was it.
We made a stop at a gas station,
and this was one of the more surreal moments.
It was a little weird to see humans right on the outside
of the car filling up and you're in the car,
and you're like...
I couldn't even do that because I had the gun here..
We go to another ATM and that's when the bank declined it.
- Because there's too many all at once.
- Too many all at once. - It's suspicious.
- Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious.
- That was I guess the last little glimmer of hope
because then we went out to this very deserted neighborhood.
We sat there.
- Time slowing down. Time slowing down.
Right, because it's like, "Oh my gosh."
- Three heads met in the middle
and they like were whispering to each other.
It was at this point where it's like,
"Hmm, this...this isn't good."
Everyone gets out of the car.
We're on the edge of the dirt field
and then they just say, "Keep backing up."
It's five in the morning at this time.
- [Jordan] Right. Oh my gosh.
- And one of them goes, "It's over."
It's a feeling that's indescribable.
- I just got chills.
- Raised the gun and I just took off and I heard one shot.
- [Jordan] Oh my God.
- And then I just started doing this weird zigzag
that I guess I picked up from video games or movies.
- Serpentine pattern.
He's incapable of rapid course correction.
- And I was pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
I feel one bullet and then the shooting stopped.
- Okay. And you're still going?
- Oh, I'm sprinting.
So I just remember cutting through yards and jumping fences.
I would just go to the next house
and I would keep doing that.
And then I got to, it would end up being the last house
I got to. - [Jordan] Okay.
- Ring, ring, ring. Knock, knock, knock.
"Who the hell is it?" - [Jordan] Okay.
- Right away.
- So to clarify, the owner of the house said,
"Who the hell is it?"
- Exactly. - Okay.
- It's Anthony. I been shot!
- [House Owner] Who's Anthony?
- And at that point I'm just like...
Just call 911. I've been shot. Swear to God.
- [House Owner] Get the (censored) out of here!
- He calls 911 eventually.
I mean the police got there super quick.
Didn't see any trauma at first.
- [Jordan] Okay. Did anybody lift your sweatshirt up?
- They didn't at first. - Okay.
- They checked again under the back side of my shirt
and that's when they saw probably like that much blood
- Because it's an entrance wound,
and an entrance wound, it's probably tiny.
- It was a perfect circle. - Okay.
The attitudes of everybody maybe around you
kind of reshifted.
- Everyone's attitude changed
except for the guy whose house I went to.
- [Jordan] Interesting.
- He was still upset that someone was bleeding out
on his porch.
- When you woke up next, what do you remember?
What'd they tell you?
- I'm like lifting up my shirt
and I'm just seeing a scar from here to here.
- I'd be scared.
Like all of a sudden you're like, "Wait a minute.
Why do I have a zipper?"
- Yeah, it was like, and just stapled and just dry blood.
- So just by hearing this,
they did an exploratory laparotomy.
They put a breathing tube in, they sedated you,
so they can open you up,
see what organs might have been injured.
We see people come to the ER all the time,
shot eight times, nine times, arms, legs, they're fine.
Everything is missed.
Somebody gets shot once and they're dead.
They're dead on scene.
What does it actually feel like to get shot?
I don't know what that feels like.
- Zero pain.
If you stub your toe, that hurts like five times more.
I feel one bullet and it goes in,
it's kind of like in "Donnie Darko"
when the thing is coming out of their chest.
- [Jordan] Okay.
- Like you feel air. Just like an air bubble.
- So there was only one bullet that went into your body?
- Yes. One bullet. - Okay.
- Didn't hit anything majorly vital
and then got stuck as it was coming out of the skin.
- Yeah, what they said is it bounced off my pelvis
and went like this.
- Wow.
- Every single thing that happened that night was a reason.
Luck, chance, whatever you want to call it.
It's all the way from the route the bullet took
to the other seven bullets missing me,
to them getting caught, to it improving my life.
Like everything that happened that night,
I wouldn't change at all. - [Jordan] Wow
Well, I wouldn't really want you to get shot.
But at the same time, someone was gonna fall victim.
It could have been a little old lady.
It could have been someone that might have not ran fast.
They had a plan that night.
I know it's gonna sound all altruistic and whatnot,
but it's like, you know, if I can get away
and be 100% healthy and they're in jail
and no one else was hurt,
no, I wouldn't change anything that happened.
- Got it. Yeah, the ultimate class half full.
Hindsight, looking back on this situation,
do you have any advice or thoughts on what to do?
- If there was any advice I could give to like anyone
that's watching this is be aware of your surroundings.
I didn't find out until days, weeks later
that I was in a really bad area.
I did what they teach you at a very young age,
and that is "Hey, if someone's trying to rob you
or hurt you, give them everything you have.
Do what they're telling you
and hopefully they'll leave you alone."
- So now where do you go from here?
- I didn't let this divert me from my ultimate goal.
I've been doing real estate for 10 years now.
- That is a crazy, intense story of surviving
one of the worst days of your life.
I'm so glad you're here.
I'm so glad you're doing well and thriving in life.
If any of you out there have a story
that's similar like this,
please let us know in the comments.
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that me and Anthony had,
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