A smile unbroken

"I'm good. It's just speech," said Steufon, sitting on a chair in his home. "I have ... it's called aphasia."

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Aphasia, his mother explained, is a medical term for when a person knows what they want to say in their mind, but have trouble signaling the message from their brain to their tongue. Speech therapy is helping Steufon mitigate the condition.

On the night of last year's shooting, Steufon was in his second-story bedroom when he heard gunshots somewhere not too far from his Belletini Court home. He approached his window to see where the commotion might be coming from when a stray bullet smashed through his window and entered the left side of his head. The bullet traveled through to the right side, and curved into the back of his head where it remains, lodged in his brain. Next.....