Gunshot victim finds cracks in the system

Gunshot victim finds cracks in the system - Wire - Lifestyle - bellinghamherald.com: "On Valentine's Day 2009, Danny Rodriguez, then 28, was leaving a party with friends in Pico Rivera, Calif., when they were accosted by a group of young men from a gang active in the neighborhood. Rodriguez and his friends explained they belonged to no gang and just wanted to go home. But as they drove away, they made a turn down a dead-end street. Gang members followed them, opening fire.
Rodriguez, in the back seat, was the only one hit. The bullet entered the back of his head and exploded into pieces as it drove through his brain's right parietal and frontal lobes. A piece of bullet remains in his skull above his right eye. A 43-year-old La Verne, Calif., man has been charged in the shooting.
At the time, Rodriguez was working on a landscaping crew, with no medical insurance. He was whisked to Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center, where his treatment was largely indistinguishable from that given Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at University Medical Center in Tucson."