JUDGE

Convict in Shooting That Left Child Paralyzed Seeking New Trial

A Strawberry Mansion man convicted to 62 years to life in prison for a 2006 shooting that left a child paralyzed from the neck down is seeking a retrial.

A judge did not rule in the case of Raheem Collins, now 30, but scheduled another hearing for June.

The victim, Jabar Wright, who was 6 years old when he suffered a bullet wound to the head in an ambush shooting on Westmont Street, was not in court, but his mother Alicia Wright was.

"We count every day as a miracle, so to be here, and fight this 10 years later is hard," she said.

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