The bullet entered his body at the back of his neck and ended up in his C4 vertebra, shattering parts of his spine and severing his spinal cord, initially leaving him paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe on his own. Wrote Ventura’s partner Ezra Glenn on a GoFundMe page set up to help with medical expenses: “Despite the presence of up to 300 people in the street, Pedro was the only person hit in the gunfire, and his injuries are severe. Pedro Ventura, who was in town for a friend’s wedding, was standing outside the club when an unidentified assailant drove by and fired several gunshots into a crowd.