Victim of 'catastrophic' injury advocates stiffer DWI penalties - Fayetteville Observer
In Cumberland County court transcripts, Bryant's own lawyer described her as an addict who has abused pain killers, cocaine and marijuana. Bruns was the total opposite of Bryant. At age 42, he still maxed out on the Army physical fitness test, keeping up with soldiers half his age. 10, 2012 - when Bryant's Ford Taurus crossed the center line of Calamar Drive in a quiet west Fayetteville subdivision. Bruns stood in his driveway, stowing fishing gear into the back of his Toyota Tundra, when the Taurus barreled into him. The crash pinned Bruns between Bryant's car and his truck, ripping apart flesh and bones. Brun's sister, Nikolee Turner, provided the court with Brun's account of the night he lost two legs above the knee, as well as a thumb and a finger on his dominant hand. "He told me how he beat his hand on her car, shattering his wrist and his hand, trying to get her to move the car off of him," Turner testified. When police arrived, Bryant remained seated in her car. Bruns spent more than a year in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. "Our suffering has been unmeasurable," Bruns wrote in an email last week. Source: www.fayobserver.com
