‘You Don’t Give Up’: Brookline News

John Carter at the Hummingbird Book Store in Chestnut Hill on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. Photo by Muayad Al-Barwani

John Carter was shot in the head, left in a coma for 99 days and told he’d never walk again.

Yet on Wednesday night he stood tall – steady, smiling and surrounded by people who came to support him.

“I had a choice – go back to the life I knew, or take the left and go to a halfway house,” said John Carter, author of “Triggered to Change: A Life Full of Turbulence ” and owner of Titanium Health and Fitness in Brookline. “That left turn saved my life.”