Black teen shot at for asking directions graduates high school, chooses to attend HBCU  

A Black Detroit teenager who was shot at for asking directions to school three years ago, graduated from high school early, according to Fox 2 Detroit. 

Brennan Walker was 14 years old when he approached the home of Jeff Zeigler after missing his school bus, who assumed he was a burglar and fired his shotgun at him.   

“It doesn’t mentally impact me as much as it used to, but I think about the events every day,” Walker told Fox 2 Detroit. “After that stuff happened to me, I was in a pretty bad place as far as my schoolwork, mentally and emotionally. I wasn’t really there, fully.”  

Zeigler was sentenced to four to 10 years in prison.  

Walker is attending the HBCU Florida Memorial University in Miami, according to Fox 2.   

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