BATON ROUGE – A man shot while leading a volunteer group on a community service project is still recovering six months later and hopes his story inspires others to keep going even when facing difficult challenges.
Robby McKey is the Community Building and Field Representative for Mid-City Redevelopment Alliance. Back in May, he and two other volunteers, his best friend and his stepfather, were installing fences on a property when two men walked up. At first, McKey said the men asked about volunteering, then they asked for money and pulled out guns.
“It progressed into them attempting to rob us, to which I fought back. I sustained roughly 13 bullet wounds,” McKey said…