Hall County teen thrown by tornado alive by ‘the grace of God’

The Brief

  • A tornado threw 18-year-old Malachi Chaney 300 feet from his Locust Grove home in late May.
  • He suffered a traumatic brain injury, broken ribs, and facial fractures.
  • Less than a month later, he is walking again and preparing to return to college.

LOCUST GROVE, Ga. The house of ‘The Wire’ actor Tray Chaney and his son, Malachi, is nothing more than a pile of rubble now.

But to a father and son nearly killed when an EF-2 tornado directly hit their house in late May, it’s emblematic of a miracle.

“I was really in shock seeing it like this,” Malachi Chaney, 18, said.

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