Texas teen Torianto “Junior” Brinson’s mother La’Kisha Wells credited prayer as the reason her son survived after he was pronounced dead from a horrific car crash.
Wells prayed while holding Brinson’s lifeless hand in hopes that his consciousness would come back. The teen’s hand miraculously began to move, which prompted medical staff to rush the 15-year-old to emergency surgery for his traumatic brain injury.
“I was holding his hand, and I prayed and told him, ‘Junior, I need you!’ A minute later, I saw his hand move,” she recalled.
Brinson was reportedly thrown from a car that was totaled during a crash near his home in Missouri City, Texas. When air and ground critical care transport service Life Flight arrived at the scene, its workers rushed him to the Texas Medical Center, where doctors pronounced him dead.
“They told us that he was gone, there was nothing they could do, and I remember asking them, ‘You’re just going to let my baby just sit here?’ and they were like, ‘There’s nothing they can do,'” Wells said.
Rather than losing hope, however, she decided to pray over her son and asked her family to join her. That is when, she said, the alleged miracle happened.
Brinson spent several months in a semi-coma at Memorial Hermann following his surgery. He eventually became well enough to be transferred to TIRR Memorial Hermann, but his brain was so injured that doctors had to monitor his stimulation. Thankfully, he’s made great progress since then, as he’s functioning on his own. He’s even been playing basketball, which doctors said he’s skilled at.
“I made varsity as a freshman…I want to play for the Houston Rockets,” Brinson said.
With the support of his family and the team at TIRR Memorial Hermann, he is currently taking summer courses and has caught up to level courses. He’s also gotten the hang of basic tasks again, including brushing his teeth, eating, and taking a bath.
Wells noted that Brinson was an excellent student at school and that he never got into trouble.
“My son didn’t get in trouble. He went to school, band star since eighth grade, basketball. So I refused to believe that God was going to take his future, even though it didn’t look like it,” she said. “We’ve even had people tell us he wasn’t going to walk or talk, but we believed.”
