Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, Disability, and Basketball
Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by 5 Wheel Scooters in Mobility News
Melvin Juette has said that becoming paralyzed in a gang-related shooting was “both the worst and best thing that happened? to him. The incident, he believes, surely spared the then sixteen year-old African American from prison and/or an early death. It transformed him in other ways, too. He attended college and made wheelchair basketball his passion-ultimately becoming a star athlete and playing on the U.S. National Wheelchair Basketball Team.
