NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — If you were to look at 4-year-old Honesty Brehon, you’d never imagine all she’s been through.
“It’s amazing, because all the things they said she couldn’t do she’s doing,” said Honesty’s grandmother, Arkeda Brehon. “They said she might not walk. She’s running.”
Walking, running, and jumping — just four years after she was shot while in her mother’s arms at only one-month old.
Police said an AK-47 style weapon destroyed her reproductive system, left her with nerve damage to her eyes, a deformed foot, and only one hip. Plus, up until recently, she had a colostomy bag. She had surgery to remove that a few weeks ago, just in time for her fourth birthday.
“We wanted to have a party, so I said Honesty, what do you want to do? She said I wanted to go to the jump park, so the jump park was the best thing because she never was able to go to the jump park,” her grandmother said.
That was until Thursday. 10 On Your Side was there as Honesty took her first jump.
“She’s just so excited,” her grandmother said. “She’s been talking about it all day, all week, ‘I’m going to the jump park. She can play. She can be a kid that she wasn’t ever able to be.”
Her family calls the recovery a miracle, thankful that one senseless act of gun violence didn’t rob her of her life. If you ask anyone if Honesty is struggling with anything now, they’ll tell you she’s not.
“She struggles with nothing,” her grandmother said. “She’s jumped all the hurdles they said she couldn’t, so there’s nothing that’s holding her back. There’s nothing that can stop her now, she’s ready for life, she’s ready.”
In 2023 Kimahni L. Lankford, the man accused of shooting Honesty and four others, was found not guilty in court due to a lack of evidence. The family just hopes that Honesty has many more birthdays to come.