Almost a year after Jaylen Twyman was shot four times while visiting his aunt in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., the Vikings defensive tackle is back to pursuing his goal of getting his family out of the area where gun violence had already taken so much.
Twyman, 22, who returned to Vikings practice this spring, spent his rookie NFL season recovering from four bullet wounds that he said entered and exited his arm, leg and both buttocks without causing long-term damage. Three others were shot and had non-life threatening injuries in the June 2021 incident described as a random shooting, according to a police report and local news media.