'She told the officer, 'Sir, I'm going to come back here and kill him and then myself, Dale Wells explains during the Domestic Violence Awareness luncheon Oct. 24 at Fort Jackson. Wells, who is a survivor of domestic violence, was shot five times by ...
Around his neck, Dale Wells sports one of the five bullets his ex-girlfriend used when attempting to take his life in 2007. After 15 surgeries and having numerous organs removed and replaced, Wells survived the near-fatal gunshot wounds. He wears t...
Less than half a cup of blood was left in his body when Dale Wells finally arrived to the emergency room after an ex-girlfriend shot him five times.
With a .357 magnum, her first shot landed in the center of his chest. He took the next one to the shoulder, two more in the back. She laid the bridge of the gun on his neck to make her last shot.
Wells spent the next 40 days recovering in the hospital. The doctor explained that people generally don't those kind of gunshot wounds, and he was lucky.
That was in 2007. Now, almost 10 years later, Wells uses his personal experience to help put an end to domestic violence. He shared his story during the Domestic Violence Awareness luncheon Oct. 24 at Fort Jackson.
"We think because we are men we can't be abused, but it works both ways," Wells told the audience at the NCO Club.
"A man shouldn't put his hands on a woman just like a woman shouldn't put their hands on a man out of anger."
"Domestic Violence isn't just a women's problem, it's everybody problem,"said Garrison Commander Col. James Ellerson Jr. " Mr. Wells has given us a perspective we don't always get to see."
One in 4 men have been victims of physical violence by an intimate partner, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. One in 18 men have been stalked by an intimate partner during their lifetime to the point of feeling fearful or believing that they would harm or kill them.
"Before this happened to me I didn't think men could be affected by domestic violence, we were raised to not touch women or hit them and we take that knowledge into relationships," Well said.
There had been signs that his ex was violent, but Wells said he ignored them.
She mentioned to him numerous times that she was going to kill him, but since she lived out of town he didn't take the threats too serious.
It was when he walked outside and saw her standing at his door pointing a gun at him, he knew she wasn't joking.
"Men are too embarrassed or too proud to talk about domestic violence, we don't tell the group we go out with or play basketball with 'Hey, my wife hit me'," he said. "A lot of times even when we call
the police, we are the ones that get taken away."
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