“I feel like God has a purpose for me — a reason for keeping me alive,” Terrell Ismail tells PEOPLE
NEED TO KNOW
- Terrell Ismail was critically injured after he rode on top of a New York City subway train in June 2022
- The teen ended up in three different hospitals and had to relearn how to walk, write and speak
- “I care about the message getting out so other kids don’t have to go through what my son went through,” his dad tells PEOPLE
Eighteen-year-old Terrell Ismail says he’s often asked if he saw the metal rod that struck him in the head as he rode on top of a New York City subway train in 2022.
But “the speed that your brain would have to process information,” the Queens native tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, “you would’ve already been [there].”
Terrell says he’d successfully “subway surfed” more than 30 times on several transit lines around the city when he was critically injured by a rod that hung over the entrance to the 111th Street station in Queens on June 23, 2022…