Fight, that is now your best merit
The Barça team, through its website, has also revealed the story of Anthony Borges, the young Venezuelan who was hit by five bullets in the back and extremities when he helped 20 companions to take refuge in a classroom while he was holding the door.Anthony is a fan of Barça and in 2016 he was training at the Barça Academy in Lauderhill, near Fort Lauderdale (Florida), one of the six schools the Club has in the United States.
In the next few days, the young man will receive a very special gift from the whole team and it will be a shirt signed by the players of the first team, in recognition of his heroic performance, which prevented the increase of 17 dead.
The student of Venezuelan origin who helped save his companions in the massacre at a school in Parkland, Florida, returned to the intensive care unit after being subjected to an emergency operation and is connected to an artificial respirator.
Royer Borges, father of Anthony Borges said that through an MRI the doctors could notice that certainly, a section of his intestines had a small ulcer due to the type of bullet and the shock wave that she creates when entering the body. Therefore, they decided to intervene and cut that section of the small intestine so that Tony's life would not be more compromised. This was detailed by the student's father in a publication on his Facebook page.Of Venezuelan parents and born in the United States, Anthony will have to enter the operating room three or four times more in the next few days because the doctors want to make sure that the area was totally clean.
For their part, the Borges are requesting financial support through a campaign in GoFundme to pay for the high medical costs of the young man and now the $ 600,000 goal has increased to $ 1 million. Since February 15, $ 626,553 have been raised donated by 19,892 people.
A teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas School, Marilyn Rule, said in her Twitter account that Tony is kept connected to a medical ventilator in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Broward County, north of Miami. Anthony Borges was closing the door of a classroom when he was shot five times by Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old, who unleashed a massacre at the school in which 17 people were killed and 15 others injured.
Borges still wounded managed to save the lives of 20 of his companions during the shooting. Royer Borges, the father of the young man, reported that his son told him that he, along with a teacher, was trying to close the classroom door during the shooting and unfortunately the person died.
For his part, the case lawyer, Alex Arreaza, announced this week that the family plans to sue several Broward government agencies because more should have been done to protect the students and teachers.