“Wasn’t on my wish list, but it happened,” the actor said. DeRon Horton has revealed he is on the mend after being shot a few days before Christmas. The actor, 32, who is best known for appearing as Lionel Higgins in the divisive Netflix series Dear White People, told fans he is out of hospital after undergoing surgery to install a metal plate in his arm.
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Horton told his followers that - despite the major injury - he didn’t want sympathy but thanked his family and friends for checking on him after the near death experience. Sharing a photo from his hospital bed to Instagram, the Dear White People star said: “First off. I wanna give an honor to God for covering me and protecting me to make it out [of] this situation and countless other ones.
“Everybody that checked on me n holla’d at me [e]specially my family n friends I love yall, Thank you,” he wrote. “Gettin shot a few days before Xmas def wasn’t on my wish list, but it happened.”. The actor explained he had been shot in the arm through his car window, sharing photos of his stitches and the broken glass in his vehicle.
“I’m Blessed dawg to not be in a casket or paralyzed,” he reflected. “Lord Thank You. I’m out [of] the hospital now healing. “I got a plate [and] screws in my mf arm, so I can’t workout for a minute which I’m mad about BUT it coulda been worse!” Horton said.
