‘When can I die?’: Paralyzed by a bullet, he chose not to go on. Now his shooter heads to prison for life
The bullet severed Jacob Jaillet’s spinal cord. That meant, doctors told his parents, that the 21-year-old would never walk, talk or eat again. He could never be disconnected from the machinery keeping him alive. “However, Jacob’s brain was completely intact,” his mom, Tami Jaillet, testified Monday. “They call this ‘locked...