Matt Davis was at work at a North Side driving range when an angry patron fired his Glock...
Sam Owens, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographerThe University of Texas at San Antonio engineering student was at Topgolf, a driving range, bar and restaurant on the North Side where he worked as a dishwasher.
He and other kitchen employees were on break that night -- March 24, 2018 -- hanging out in a landscaped area next to the parking lot. An argument broke out between Topgolf workers and some customers who had just left the establishment. Shots were fired, and three of the employees were hit. Matt wasn’t involved in the confrontation. But he was the most seriously injured. A 9-millimeter round from a Glock 17 pistol lodged against his lower spine, scattering bullet fragments throughout his back and causing partial paralysis of his legs.
Days earlier, Matt’s parents, Jerry and Lisa Davis, both engineers, had visited him in Texas to celebrate his birthday. After the goodbye hugs that Saturday morning, Jerry and Lisa began the two-day drive home to San Diego. They’d made it to New Mexico on Interstate 10 when her phone rang.They turned around and drove through the night back to San Antonio, 650 miles away.
Express-News photographer Sam Owens spent hours with Matt and members of his family this year as they coped with the aftereffects of the shooting - repeated surgeries, battles with medical insurers and grueling legal efforts to obtain compensation from Topgolf and restitution from the man who shot Matt. Lisa says the family’s out-of-pocket medical costs may exceed $200,000.
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