The singer of the famous group "Possessed" walks for the first time in 30 years
Jeff Becerra, singer and bassist of the American death metal group "Possessed", walked again for the first time in 30 years.
In 1989, the musician was wounded in an armed robbery, after which he remained paralyzed from the chest down.
He has been in a wheelchair for three decades.
In a new video posted on the "Possessed" band’s Instagram page, we can see Jeff Becerra taking his first steps after the accident, with the help of robotic legs.
“I walked again! I walked again for the first time in over 30 years with the help of robotic legs,” he wrote below the video.
In a 2019 interview with The Underground Metal Gamer., Becerra recalled the unfortunate event that had changed his life forever.
“I’ve been in a wheelchair longer than I’ve been walking,” he said. “It’s my normal. It wasn’t so much of an accident — I got shot by two different guns in a robbery. I was doing concrete construction. I worked something like 13 hours that day. I stopped to get a pack of Camels [cigarettes] and I guess I flashed a hundred [dollar bill] and on the way out, two guys in hoods, little ninja guys came running up with guns: ‘Give me all of your fucking money.’
“I kind of resisted; I should have just given them the money, but I was fucked, I was cornered,” he continued. “It’s not the first time I had a gun pointed at me and I knew they meant business. We scuffled, there was no way out of it and I ended up getting shot a couple of times,” the singer recalled.
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By: Helen B.
