ST. LOUIS - It was a brush with death outside Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital.

A security officer was run down while protecting the campus. Doctors told his family he wouldn't survive but four years later, after serving his country and now surviving the unthinkable, he shares his story of survival.

“I was given an 80% chance to not even wake up from the coma and if I did, I’d basically be a vegetable for the rest of my life,” Robert Schwartzman said.

Schwartzman went to investigate a suspicious car. Moments later, he was run over and left clinging to life.

"I went out there and when I caught up with them, I got in front of the car. He went forward, put me on the hood, and ran over my feet,” Schwartzman said. “I pulled out my revolver when I was on the hood and that's when I shot h

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