On May 23, 1992, Will Waller was sitting in a car with members ofhis gang when some rivals drove up and fired off five shots, one ofwhich lodged in his spinal cord and put him in a wheelchair for therest of his life.
Best thing that ever happened to him, he says.
Waller was a kid looking for trouble in his neighborhood south ofBucktown and if it took a bullet in the back to straighten him out,so be it.
"I'm glad it happened to me," Waller, who is one of America's topwheelchair basketball players, said Wednesday. "Otherwise, I mightnot be in the situation I'm in. I compete at a high level in sports.I'm going to get my master's degree. I'm going to be …
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