Strange Facts Surround Police Shooting Case
Man Shot 25 Times, Charged With Attempted Murder
POSTED: 11:07 am CST January 4, 2006
UPDATED: 1:14 pm CST January 4, 2006
CHICAGO -- Rarely do you hear of a man being shot 25 times -- and surviving.
And perhaps just as rare is a $188,000 bail being posted by an anonymous
donor.
But both things happened to Howard Morgan.
Morgan is charged with four counts of attempted murder against police
officers, three counts of aggravated battery and a weapons charge. But those
charges have not stopped the community from supporting him because many
believe he was wronged.
Morgan and his wife, Rosalind, are very connected to the Church of the
Living God on West Marquette. He's a deacon, her sister is the current
pastor, and her father is a bishop at the church. It is through God, they
say, they've gained strength.
Morgan said "the grace of God," along with help from his family, kept him
going after an incident that changed his life.
At 12:49 a.m. on Feb. 21, 2005, police say, they pulled Morgan over at 19th
and Lawndale for driving without his lights on. Within minutes, he lay shot
25 times by police.
"I said, 'Oh my God, who would shoot someone 25 times?' They had to have
been trying to kill him. And for what reason?" Rosalind Morgan asked.
Howard Morgan says a bullet is still lodged in his hip, and there are bullet
fragments in his leg.
"Only through God's grace do I sit before you to talk to you," he told
NBC5's Marion Brooks.
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