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Ten year old Een shot a woman in the face, destroying her jaw, tongue and teeth. The bullet exited through her cheek, and she started run away. She later had forty surgeries to rebuild her jaw. Three days after shooting,. Db, manuel says that he and some friends stole a car, a white catalack fleetwood. An hour and a half later, they got caught and were brought to the police station. Eventually an officer told him that they would have to take him to a juvenile detention facility to spend the night until they could find his mother. This episode contains descriptions of violence. Please use discretion.

"The phone rang and rang and a lady picked up on the other end and I still remember the operator saying, 'You have a collect call from Ian for Debbie. Will you accept the charges?' And I remember Debbie saying, 'Yes, I accept.' And I just remember blurting out, 'Ms. Baigrie, I just called to wish you and your family a merry Christmas and to apologize for shooting you.'" At 14 years old, Ian Manuel was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, and spent an estimated 18 years in solitary confinement. Today, he tells his story.

His book is My Time Will Come.

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