It's a story that weaves a tangled web of violence and has had long lasting consequences for those involved. Now, the victim and his family are speaking out in the hopes that the case will show the ripple effect crime can have.



Alondre Cooley lives in constant pain and needs around-the-clock care, a lifestyle the 21-year-old never envisioned for himself. He's paralyzed after being shot in the face in 2014.



"It did change my life. I can't do everything I used to do," Cooley said.



It happened on March 29, 2014 at 11:30 p.m. on Edward J. Nettles Lane in West Montgomery near Freewill Missionary Baptist Church.



Alondre didn't know it, but members of his family had helped police bust a local drug dealer. Enraged, prosecutors say the drug dealer hired his longtime friend and fellow member of his crew, Jacquees Boone, to settle the score and take out a member of Alondre's family. That night, he spotted Alondre walking to his girlfriend's house.



"The victim was walking down the street in his neighborhood and the defendant rolls up on him in his car, sticks a gun out of his window and shoots him once, hits him in the jaw causing him to be paralyzed from the neck down," said Deputy District Attorney Samuel Ford. "He was walking down the street minding his own business and all of a sudden his life changed forever. The bullet entered the left side and traveled down to his spinal cord where it's still lodged."



Alondre's family members also retaliated, shooting Boone the very next day. Boone is now also suffering paralysis.



"A family member snitched on the defendant's friend and the victim was shot as a result of that. The victim's family heard about it and the retaliation came the next day," Ford explained.



Ford says Alondre Cooley was not involved in any criminal activity and was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Alondre was able to identify his shooter since the two men know each other from the neighborhood.



A jury found Boone, 25, guilty of attempted murder in February. The trial lasted for two days and the jury deliberated for three hours.



"I'm so glad they found him guilty for shooting me. I didn't want anyone to let him get away with that," Alondre said.



"We had eyewitness testimony and we had the fact that the defendant was shot the next day. We didn't have a whole lot of evidence, but we felt like we had enough to maintain a conviction. So it was very important for our office and for the community that we come back with this verdict," Ford said. "It's unfortunate for both sides. Nobody wins in this situation."



For Alondre, the road to recovery is only just beginning. He spent several months in the hospital and just recently started being able to talk again. His therapy is painful but he's determined to walk again and move on with his life.



"This changed his whole life, our whole lives. We would have never thought this would happen. He got shot due to something that didn't have anything to do with him. These people get out there with these guns and kill people and hurt people for no reason. He's 21-years-old and bed-bound and he has a 1-year-old daughter that he hasn't played with or been able to see reach any milestones. She was a baby when this happened," his sister, Shandra Cooley, said.



"I wouldn't wish this tragedy on anyone and their family. And I'm just so grateful for the Montgomery Police Department and the District Attorney's Office that justice has been served. And I'm just truly blessed to have my son alive," his mother, Sheron Cooley, added. "He's going to walk again."



Members of Alondre Cooley family's accused of shooting Jacquees Boone are set to stand trail in the coming weeks.



"It's just goes to show that two wrongs don't make a right but the wonderful thing about our criminal justice system is that the defendant is going to have his opportunity in court to be the victim and whoever shot him is going to have to answer up to their charges," Ford said.



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