Melissa Robertson knows pain. She also knows perseverance.
Melissa Robertson is at home recovering after she was shot twice, her neighbor is charged in the shooting and with a hate crime"They just got the 42 staples out yesterday, and then five more from where the bullet went in," she told NBC Chicago's Courtney Sisk. “There’s no way I was going out with that type of anger. I have a point to prove.”It was just three weeks ago when Robertson was shot twice. The bullets nearly severed her arm, and caused her colon to split.
"I heard like him yelling the n-word and things," Robertson recalled. “He kept saying that there was going to be dead people and he was going to kill, and I heard that and I was like get the kids in the house.”Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklyRobertson said her and her sons have been subjected to relentless threats and slurs from their neighbor since they moved to their home 10 years ago.
Robertson said she called police before, and although they showed up to his home, she wishes more would have been done."You see stuff like this on the headlines, and you look past it and don’t think twice, but when it happens to you it’s a totally different feeling," her oldest son, 21-year-old Mikeal Johnson said.
Robertson spent eight days on a ventilator and underwent several surgeries. Three weeks later, she's back at home with her kids, donning a few battle wounds and a smile, sharing a message. "All you’re doing is making people stronger," she said."Because that’s disgusting, and it’ll never win.”
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