He's the teenage Good Samaritan and tonight for the first time a look at his road to recovery.
For the first time, we got a look at 17-year-old Fritz Pascal in the hospital as he recovers from the shooting that nearly killed him.
A week ago he was in critical condition and now he's stable and rapidly improving.
Still for his mother the past 9 days have felt more like an eternity.
"It's been horrible watching your child laying down there. An active child just laying there with all of those tubes coming out of his face, mouth his stomach," says Fritzie Pascal.
She tells Jeff Pegues a 17-year-old football player at Grady High School is regaining his strength and he's able to walk.
Earlier this month he stepped in front of a bullet - meant for one of his friends.
"That's the kind of kid he is. He put his life in danger for someone else," she adds.
That was pascal's 16-year-old friend. Police say he was targeted by robbers near Grady High School in Brighton Beach. The suspects were after a designer bag and one of them fired a shot at the 16-year-old. Pascal intervened trying to help his friend, he was shot in the chest.
We now know how serious his injuries are. According to his family the bullet tore into his stomach, striking the diaphram, the kidney, spleen and lung before finally exiting his back.
As soon as he could talk he told his sister he had no regrets.
"He said he would do it again. He felt like his friend was gonna die that day. If he was not there his friend would have died," said Paulette Pascal.
Pascal has a long road aheah, something that is perhaps a source of encouragement.
And his mother has been by his side almost around the clock. Pascal's sister says her brother is strong.
She says he's a big guy with an even bigger heart.
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