A Florida high school softball star who was stabbed more than a dozen times by her stalker ex-boyfriend and left paralyzed from the chest down has revealed she is miraculously able to walk again, a year after the vicious attack.
Madison Shemitz, 18, shared on Instagram earlier this week. Heart-wrenching footage She spoke about her harrowing road to recovery after being seriously injured in a stabbing incident outside a Ponte Vedra Beach restaurant last June.
“A whole year! I wish there were words to describe this year,” the girl wrote alongside the post.
“This past year has not been easy – through sleepless nights, secret tears and endless struggles – but my heart is so full.”
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s to live in the moment, because tomorrow isn’t promised,” she added.
The video also includes footage of Shemitz walking alone across the stage at Ponte Verde High School’s graduation ceremony on May 17 to a standing ovation and rapturous applause.
Shemitz’s amazing recovery came after she and her mother were ambushed by her dumped ex-boyfriend, Spencer Pearson, on June 3, 2023, as they were leaving a local restaurant.
In a frenzy, Pearson allegedly plunged a knife into his ex-wife’s neck 15 times before slitting his own throat in a suicide attempt that also killed his mother, Jackie Losey, and well-meaning intervener Kennedy Armstrong.
The attack came just days after Shemitz’s mother reported Pearson to police, telling officers he had been stalking her daughter in person and online.
Ms Roget claimed her increasingly frightened daughter told her Pearson had been following her on her way to school, leaving notes in her car and harassing her on social media.
Pearson and Shemitz had already separated several months before the attack.
Pearson, a former high school football player, spent several weeks in the hospital before being booked into the St. Johns County Jail.
His arrest photo showed him covered in bandages and a horrific scar on his neck with stitches.
Court records revealed that Pearson had also attempted suicide several weeks earlier and that his parents had sought mental health help for him.
Pearson has pleaded not guilty to a host of charges related to the stabbing, including attempted murder and aggravated assault.
He is currently being held in custody awaiting trial. The next court hearing in his case is scheduled for June 11.
