A kindergarten teacher who survived a mass shooting in a Bronx park that left one dead and three others wounded may spend the rest of her life with a grisly memento of the bloody carnage — a bullet that remains lodged in her lower lung and may be too dangerous to remove.
“So far, they’re telling me to take it day by day,” Jaylen Murray said from her hospital bed. “They have been draining blood from my lungs. But as of right now, I’m making a good recovery and they told me I am the most positive person for someone who has been shot.”
“It’s not something you hear every day,” she said, keeping her humor despite the horror she experienced.
Murray, 29, was inside Haffen Park in Baychester the evening of Aug. 23 when a shooting broke out at the end of a basketball game organized as a com