BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputy Maury Hernandez survived a reckless driver who shot him in the head on Aug. 7, 2007. He lives with paralysis on the left side of his body due to brain damage.
Hernandez was investigating a robbery in Pembroke Park when he started to follow David Maldonado, a motorcyclist who was speeding even though he was a felon on probation.
Hernandez was in a coma and had to undergo several brain surgeries, and he and his family have been struggling to pay for medical bills and other expenses…