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Local shooting victim channels painful memory into music

"Life is like a relay race, up and down, it’s happening, but you've got to let it run its course."

ST. LOUIS – A south St. Louis man is channeling a painful memory into music and lyrics.

A drive-by shooting left him paralyzed on his right side.

Doctors told him it’s unlikely that he will regain feeling on that side which is his dominant side. And that’s a challenge because he is a singer and a songwriter.

Music is the way King Jupiter expresses himself. His notebooks are filled with his lyrics.

“Life is like a relay race, up and down, it’s happening, but you've got to let it run its course,” Jupiter recited the first line of his latest song.

In his latest song, Jupiter writes about his trauma. He was shot twice while walking to the gas station at the corner of McCausland and Bruno last week.

Jupiter thinks he was a random victim and police have not made any arrests.

“As I'm fading in and out of consciousness, I remember thinking to myself, if I get another chance, then I will have my voice heard,” Jupiter said.

Jupiter can no longer write his lyrics down, but instead, he now voices them on his phone.
He has dozens of stitches on his arm and his shoulder.

“It’s pretty gruesome, but it will heal,” he said.

Jupiter said it’s what you do with that pain that can make all the difference.

“It feels like a curse, the way my life keeps getting worse and worse and not better, but I still rock and I'm still hot like the devil on the beach with a fever in a sweater,” recited Jupiter from his latest album.

Jupiter is working with a local St. Louis producer. His album is scheduled to be released in mid-January.

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