Brooklyn Collegiate player recovers from stray bullet
Jahlil Tripp was on his way home from school with friends after a girl’s basketball game when he heard it. At first it sounded like fire crackers, but he grew up in Brownsville so it didn’t take him long to figure out what the sounds were and he ran.
A few seconds later he was on the ground, he was alive, but incredibly scared and worried that his basketball career might be over after he had been hit in the calf by a stray bullet last Thursday night.
“I was pretty scared because I didn’t know the severity of the injury at the time,” Tripp recalled. “It wasn’t until I got to the hospital that they told me what happened and when I might be able to return. I was really happy that it wasn’t very serious.”