It took 25 years before a routine CT scan revealed that William Milton has a loaded head.
The results of a recent scan revealed that Milton, 59, had a bullet fragment lodged in his skull despite the fact that he didn’t know that he had ever been shot.
Once he heard the news Morton put the pieces together and realized that years earlier when he thought he had been hit in the head with a falling brick, he had actually been shot, he told the New York Post.
Morton recalled walking past two men arguing on Manhattan loading dock in 1976 when he suddenly felt an excruciating pain in his head.
With blood streaming from his head, Morton said he thought he had been hit by a falling brick.
In a daze, Milton walked home and fell asleep. When he woke up the next morning there was a bump on his head but the bleeding had stopped.
“I didn’t go to the emergency room because I just thought it was a bump from a brick,” Milton said.
Milton said he would leave the bullet where it was.
