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Teen nearly killed by pumpkin launcher has recovered with NGHS, family, church support
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Jacob Stevens, right, hugs John Jeffrey Marshall, left, chairman of The Heart Center of Northeast Georgia Medical Center, during the Northeast Georgia STEMI Summit at Lanier Technical College on Friday, March 22, 2019. Jacob Stevens was struck in the chest by a pumpkin, stopping his heart at Cornerstone Assembly church's Trunks of Treats event on Halloween night. - photo by Austin Steele
Jacob Stevens loves to write, particularly fiction and poetry like the works of some of his favorite authors, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Bronte and H.P. Lovecraft. But now, as his doctors say, he has his own story to tell.