Roxbury woman who was paralyzed in shooting fights to regain physical independence

Aleyah Fernandez was just walking with her boyfriend in Roxbury a couple of months ago, when she was shot in the spine.

The suspect fired twenty shots into a restaurant, and she was caught in the gunfire.

“I got hit in my spine and I just remember falling to the ground and everything was dark,” said Fernandez. “I just felt numbness and like I was floating and couldn’t feel anything.”…

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