He was shot as a child in a drive-by shooting. Now, he’s headed to Washington University in St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) -Jordan Hughes learned at a very young age that life is finite after he nearly died during a drive-by shooting at the Peabody Housing Complex in downtown St. Louis.

Hughes was only 11 years old at the time and was hanging out with his brother, when a car drove by a group of people and opened fire.

“It was a defining moment of my life,” he said. “It changed a lot of things for me.”…

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