On February 14 2018, a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, America with a semi-automatic rifle. The shooting claimed the lives of seventeen (17) students and faculty members and injured another seventeen (17). Anthony Borges, fifteen (15) years, was one of the injured students fighting for his life.
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Anthony Borges shut the classroom door behind him in the class and held it closed with his body, facing the bullets. He was shot five times, but he was able to save twenty (20) of his classmates. The bullets ripped through his lungs, legs, and abdomen, leaving him critically injured. The adolescent spent two months in the hospital, underwent thirteen (13) operations, and eventually recovered completely.
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