Michigan Shooting: Robert Poore Saved From Gunshot To Head By Titanium Plate In Nose (VIDEO)

Amid Rodrick Shonte Dantzler's deadly rampage in Michigan Thursday that left seven people dead comes one miraculous story:

A man shot in the face says his life was saved by the titanium plate in his nose.

On Thursday afternoon, Robert Poore and his cousin, Harold Taylor, were stuck in a traffic jam in Grand Rapids when they noticed erratic behavior from the drivers of a Lincoln Town Car, a minivan, and a Lincoln Navigator.

The traffic jam cleared and Poore continued to drive, but at the top of a hill, the Town Car pinned their green pickup truck against another truck.

From WOOD TV8:

"As soon as we take a right on Grandville, the car stood beside us and pinned us against the truck and then he [Dantzler] raised his gun and started shooting at our truck and my cousin threw my head down," Taylor said. "I tried to get up to see the license and as soon as I did that I seen his eyes while he was shooting, non-stop."

The gunman shot Poore in the nose but a titanium plate that had been installed as part of a childhood cancer treatment caused the bullet to ricochet, resulting only in minor injuries. Poore went to the hospital but was released later in the day.

Poore and Taylor were able to pick out the gunman in pictures police presented to them.

In addition to the seven victims, Dantzler would turn the gun on himself and take his own life.

Click here for more on the Grand Rapids shooting spree.

Titanium plate saves man shot in nose: woodtv.com

Comments

[alltriple1]

06:03 PM on 07/09/2011

Cancer treatment really saved his life.

[tvLestat]

09:15 AM on 07/09/2011

what freakin cool story!! so glad this guy is ok

[Harrison Meeske]

09:40 AM on 07/09/2011

like the old stories of the guy saved by his : Zippo lighter, bible, packet of love letters from his wife, bullet proof vest and having a terrible hangover and missing the sailing of the Titanic
... lcuk is not being in the wrong spot at the wrong time

[sclintdebrular]

08:49 AM on 07/09/2011

Question: Do you think that if most if not all citizens were armed or presumed to be armed there would be less crime or more crime? Remember gun laws only keep the law abiding citizens from having or concealing guns depending on the individual state laws. The criminal will always have a way of getting a gun. Just a question.

[Nancy Q]

09:39 AM on 07/09/2011

True. Criminals are always able to get the guns they need. It's more difficult for law-abiding citizens to purchase firearms.

[fivefishheads]

10:36 AM on 07/09/2011

Anyone else having a gun would not have stopped this man, I think it would have angered him more. He had an agenda and didn't want to die until it was complete. In this case, I think more people shooting could have caused more victims.

[Justabit]

08:46 AM on 07/09/2011

What a very lucky man, sad about those that did not survive.

[luckyfreeman69]

06:51 AM on 07/09/2011

He had a record a mile long and all of it from violent behavior with numerous convictions and he continuedto booze and drug all hopped up on coke thats what you get not a very responsible person. even the breaking and entry or burguly should have raised flags...Couldn't pass a drug test couldn't pass a NICS background check .. For once he did the right thing.

[lzimbelman3]

06:28 AM on 07/09/2011

How did politics get into this story? I do not like obama with a hard attitude, but no where in the stories about this event was he involved.

[FlangersSuck]

07:21 AM on 07/11/2011

You must be new here. Welcome.

[ddicksond]

02:51 AM on 07/09/2011

What do Muslims and obama have to do with this story of an American citizen becoming a mass murderer? And yes I am Liberal, but if he is guilty fry him!

[John Balodis]

01:16 AM on 07/09/2011

Anyone up for 2nd ammendment rights? The rights for everyone to bear arms?

[dennisc443]

10:33 AM on 07/09/2011

My hand is up! I live in Illinois, only Illinois out of fifty states does not allow CCW, MY RIGHT!~~ I do not care to wait for the police, when the gun is in my face.......Make my day, let me be armed............

Zero Hussain O'Booboo wants to change that too.......­.more rules and more rules and take what we have away......­..........­All because one crazy shoots a Congresspe­rson......­., but hundreds die in Chicago, where the guns laws are the stiffest..­...Explain­s why Daley wanted special protection when he got out of office, he is now covered 24/7, while people can't walk the streets at night for fear of dying.....­.......

[Mockdog]

03:46 PM on 07/09/2011

If you live in Illinois, and Illinois doesn't allow it, then it isn't "your right", now is it? Some states have zero state tax, some don't. Mine charges a tax. That doesn't mean it's "my right" not to pay.
The solution? MOVE!!!!!!!

[eaglespark]

07:26 PM on 07/09/2011

And Alderman Burke...
Chicago Sun-Times:
"The bodyguard saga of Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th) appears to be coming to an end -- one way or another. Either Mayor Rahm Emanuel will follow through on a campaign threat and strip Burke of the four Chicago Police officers who have chauffeured and protected the alderman for nearly three decades -- or, at the very least, cut the bodyguard detail in half." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/02/ald-burke-could-give-up-b_n_889286.html

Both Burke and former Mayor Daley seem to think that armed self-defense outside the home is a good idea. Citizens who cannot afford to hire bodyguards are left to... what? "Eat cake", perhaps? ;>)

[joannloraine]

12:27 AM on 07/09/2011

He won by a nose.

[FlangersSuck]

07:20 AM on 07/11/2011

There's one in every crowd. Forty seven in every internet crowd.

[JeffJeckyll]

12:05 AM on 07/09/2011

... we have the technology ...

[GaelMc]

10:48 PM on 07/08/2011

Now THAT'S a nose job

[gposner29]

10:30 PM on 07/08/2011

Looks like Muslims are arriving in Michigan...

[lzimbelman3]

06:26 AM on 07/09/2011

They are already there, have been for quite some time. Check out Dearborn, but carefully.

[Gregory F Oltmanns]

10:27 PM on 07/08/2011

And thats why Texas executed that convict yesterday ,Mr Obama !

[wwelbes]

01:40 AM on 07/09/2011

Yup and based on the texas record of convictions in a few days DNA evidence will find him innocent.

[eaglespark]

07:00 PM on 07/09/2011

How about based on the evidence and the trial?...

"The involvement of the White House in the case was particularly striking due to the heinous nature of Garcia's crime. He was convicted of bludgeoning 16-year-old Adria Sauceda to death after violating her with a tree branch. Both forensic evidence and witness statements tied Garcia to the crime..."

The controversy here is not about Garcia's innocence or guilt, but rather legal improprieties: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/07/humberto-leal-garcia-executed_n_892762.html?ir=Crime

[wwelbes]

01:41 AM on 07/09/2011

Why dont we save the world a lot of trouble and balance he budget at the same time and just sell texas back to mexico.

[Harrison Meeske]

09:45 AM on 07/09/2011

too many crackpots for any buyer to want to train

[dennisc443]

10:37 AM on 07/09/2011

If your part of the trade, I'll buy into that.............. What is "he budget"????

[JIll26]

10:02 PM on 07/08/2011

This man has certainly had some incredible experiences in his life.

[Eric Nieves]

09:55 PM on 07/08/2011

GUN CONTROL DOES NOT WORK, ITS OUR RIGHT TO BE ARMED, YOU THINK CRIMINALS FOLLOW LAWS? THINK AGAIN , ALL GUN LAWS DO IS PREVENT US GOOD CITIZENS FOR TAKING OUT THE SCUM OF THE EARTH

[laxitup2011]

10:23 PM on 07/08/2011

THERE'S NO NEED TO SHOUT YOUR POINT

[dennisc443]

10:39 AM on 07/09/2011

SURE THE F*** IS, A LIBERAL MIGHT BE READING HIS POST AND YOUR REPLY, THEY ARE VERY F****** HARD OF HEARING AND READING...BECAUSE TRUTH IS WHISPERED WHEN IT IS HEARD BY A LIBERAL...

[wwelbes]

01:38 AM on 07/09/2011

And because you are too stupid too know the law but at the ame time able to buy and carry a gun you will have him as your cellmate.

[dennisc443]

10:40 AM on 07/09/2011

AND YOUR STILL SPELLING WRONG....JEEEZZ....WHAT A LOSER....