Article: Youth shot in back at Roslindale pizzeria may be paralyzed

Daniel Flynn may never walk again because two masked thieves -- frustrated when they could not open a cash register -- shot the 15-year-old twice in the back as he sought to flee a Roslindale pizza shop on Tuesday. Flynn, of West Roxbury, was in the Sonya's Pizza shop on Washington Street visiting his friend Michael Gemayel, also 15, who had been left in charge of the small shop by his father, who had left to attend his 6-year-old daughter's birthday party.

The two robbers burst into the pizza shop around 9 p.m. Gemayel and an unidentified delivery man escaped through the shop's rear door as soon as they saw one of the pair had a gun. Flynn was not as swift. Gemayel's father, Joseph, ...

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