"Nana Effah Donkor, 16, was outside a Brooklyn bus stop Sunday with a pal after leaving a basketball tournament, when a fellow church goer strolled by and briefly greeted him, he told The Post from his hospital bed. Moments later, three teens walked up and opened fire, he said. "Yo, that's him!" he recalled one of the shooters blurted. "They were talking about the guy next to me and I took off. They weren't talking about me because I didn't know them.""
"'The first day he got shot, I came and the report wasn't good,' his mom, Danielle Boakye, said in a phone interview. 'The bullet went straight to his spinal cord. He wasn't feeling his legs. They were cold.' Her son underwent surgery but doctors told her the bullet will do more damage if it's removed. Miraculously, her son - a junior on the Far Rockaway Seahorses basketball team - soon started feeling sensation in his feet."
"'That's why I say I have hope,' she added. 'I hope he will walk again, it's just a matter of time.' She described him as a hardworking student who excels on the court and in his studies. Donkor, meanwhile, barely knew the intended target - who police sources believe is a gangbanger. 'I go to church with him. That's all I know about him,' Donkor said. His worried mom slammed senseless teen violence plaguing the Big Apple."
Nana Effah Donkor, 16, was shot outside a Brooklyn bus stop after leaving a basketball tournament when three teens opened fire following a brief greeting between him and a church acquaintance. Donkor ran for cover and was struck; the bullet lodged in his spinal cord and left him initially unable to feel his legs. Surgeons operated but opted not to remove the bullet because removal would cause more damage. Donkor later began regaining sensation in his feet, raising hope that he may walk. He is a junior on the Far Rockaway Seahorses and is described as a hardworking student. His mother condemned senseless teen violence.
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