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Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, Disability, and Basketball
Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by 5 Wheel Scooters.
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 [...]
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Wheelchair Warrior: Gangs, Disability and Basketball
Posted on 19. Jul, 2009 by 5 Wheel Scooters.
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 [...]