LAKELAND — Two days after being injured in a car crash, Pastor William Boss Jr. sat in a medical office one morning in February 2024, awaiting the results of X-rays.
A radiologist beckoned him and asked, “Mr. Boss, what is the metal object in the back of your head?”
The question came as a surprise to Boss. More than 12 years earlier, he had been shot in the back of the head at close range as he knelt in the sanctuary of his church, praying before the start of a Sunday morning service…