Man struggles daily 1 year after hit by stray bullet

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man who was once the provider for his family continues to struggle with daily tasks one year after a stray bullet hit him in the head as celebrations broke out during the Fourth of July.

Brandon Yam, 48, said he has surprised doctors and even himself at how far he's come in a year but with a bullet still lodged in his brain, he's not 100 percent.

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"Still numb this half of my body my brain," Yam said.

Yam was selling food at a festival in front of the Buddhist temple on Owen Bouldevard in Charlotte when the bullet hit him.

Police believe it was the result of celebratory gunfire. Yam said although his memory often fails him now, that day is etched is his mind.

"All my body and my hands were kind of stiff and I couldn't move even my head and people were just holding me and I didn't know what happened," Yam said.

"I don't think it will go away from my brain for a while," he said.

Channel 9 was there as Yam went through part of his rehab at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta.

Doctors doubted he would ever walk again, he said.

"It's really tough," Yam said.

The toughest part is now being back at home yet unable to help his wife and four children, he said. When he was injured he was operating his food business for the very first time, trying to earn some additional income.

"I was the provider now here I am, I can't do (anything)nothing that hurts," he said. "And to see them struggling like this is really killing me alive."

He forgives whoever shot that round but he has a message for them.

"What goes up is going to come back down and when it comes back down who knows where it is going to land. It's just like I am right now," Yam said.

If you would like to help, there is a GoFundMe account set up for Yam.

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