Jus's arm is in a sling and causes him pain-he has to relearn how to use it after Tison shot his shoulder and caused extensive nerve damage. He also notes that the media has started calling him "The Boy Who Survived"-a nickname he reviles.
Manny reveals that the media has been building up a storm of "speculation" about the shooting and that there are many reporters waiting outside the church. Keep going until his legs fall off or he dies from thirst or starvation or exhaustion or some combination of the three" (126). Part of Jus doesn't want to be there at all: "He would love to just get up and walk out. The funeral is incredibly difficult for Jus, who decides not to go up and look at Manny's body during the viewing. Jus reveals that the Rivers family decided to postpone Manny's funeral until Jus was well enough to leave the hospital and attend it.
In Chapter 15, Jus is at Manny's funeral, twenty-seven days after the shooting. He writes, "I can't do this anymore" (124). His letter is extremely short-just three lines-and Jus is evidently devastated. He was off duty when he opened fire on Manny and Jus.įollowing this news transcript, we get Jus's eighth letter to Martin, in which he reveals that Manny was the one who was killed. We also learn the white man's identity his name is Garrett Tison, and he is an "officer with the Atlanta PD" (123). At the beginning of Part 2, we learn via news transcript what happened after Chapter 14: the white man driving the Suburban shot Manny and Jus, and one of them was killed.
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