Top 5 Individuals who Survived Being Shot in the Head

1. Toddler Survives Self-Inflicted Gunshot to Head
Children getting their hands on guns and accidentally shooting themselves and others is surprisingly common. It was not anomalous when three year-old Darnal Mundy shot himself in the head in Miami, Florida on August 4, 2015.
What would have been anomalous would have been for him to survive, as one of the nurses told Darnal Mundy’s parents when he was brought in. According to CNN, he shot himself in the middle of the face and the bullet exited out the left side of the back of his head.

Also, a portion of his skull was removed because of the swelling. He fell into a coma for three weeks, but thankfully recovered enough that in three months he was able to return home. He was in a wheelchair while he regained the ability to reuse the right side of his body.

2. Petra Anderson Survives the Aurora Shooting Because of a Brain Abnormality
This woman was twenty-two years old in 2012 when she was sitting in the now-infamous Colorado theater for one of the other most famous mass shootings in American history.
The gunman fired three shotgun pellets into her arm and one up her nose into her brain. The pellet would have torn through vital areas easily, but Anderson had an irregularity of the cerebrum that would prove an unlikely lifesaver.

As a result, Anderson not only survived but fled the scene under her own power before going into intensive care for a week. After she recovered, Colorado Public Radio reported that she became a music composer.

3. Sergeant Alistair McKinney Survives Taliban Sniper Shot Directly Through his Brain
Even this soldier from the First Battalion Royal Irish Regiment couldn’t believe he’d survived his head injury after he emerged from a coma in 2005 at age 33.
On a routine guard duty, he was hit by a Taliban sniper’s bullet that struck him above his right eye and exited his skull above his right ear. The Telegraph reported that they were told he had a 0.1% chance of surviving the wound.

He lost vision in the left side of both of his eyes. Three years after the shooting he was still in the care of his parents. McKinney still claimed that he wasn’t bitter. After all, he was very lucky to just be alive.

4. “Russian Terminator” is Unfazed by a Bullet to his Forehead
Reportedly dating back to a clash between Russian armed forces and Chechen rebels in 2000, it features a very crude field surgery performed on an anonymous soldier.
What’s been identified as an AK-47 bullet is lodged in his forehead. One of his comrades comes and has to resort to prying it out with a pair of pliers.
Rather than showing any signs of being disturbed that he’s just been almost killed or in pain because a bullet is being pried out of his head, he seems so calm he might as well be receiving a haircut. But rather than seeming like someone in shock, he turns to the camera and grins in a very lucid manner, even smiling a couple times while his wound is squeezed to remove any potential shrapnel.

5. Richard Norris Survived Losing Half His Face to a Shotgun Shell
In 1997, for reasons he doesn’t remember according to a profile in GQ, 22 year-old Richard Norris accidentally discharged a shotgun shell into his face. He was at his home, and his mother was close enough to him that parts of his face hit her.

Though he survived against long odds, effectively half of his visage was gone. Around a decade later, his mother found out about a cutting-edge doctor who agreed to reconstruct his face. It was a very new surgical procedure, with Norris being only the third person to undergo the surgery. The surgeries culminated in the most elaborate facial reconstruction in human history in an operation in 2012 that lasted 36 hours. In the end, Norris felt confident enough with his new face that after years living in his parent’s house.
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