JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Eight months after being ambushed and shot in the face at a Murray Hill intersection , a Callahan woman is sharing her story of survival for the first time.

Last February, Latasha Taylor’s life changed in an instant. What was supposed to be a simple night out turned into chaos when police say she was shot at a stoplight near Post and McDuff Avenue in Murray Hill.

The bullet, which her husband said hit her in the neck behind her ear, left her paralyzed from the neck down.

“I strongly believe in God,” Taylor said. “And I know His will will be done for me.”

Her husband, Tony Taylor, remembers doctors warning the family to prepare for the worst.

“The prognosis at first was she wouldn’t make it through the weekend,” he said. “And then they said she’d never open her e

See Full Page