Daryl Virgies won't forget the sensation.
"It felt like a blowtorch was on me," the Trenton native and recently-signed Giants running back said, recalling the day he was shot in his triceps.
Virgies had completed his final season at Virginia University of Lynchburg, a historically black NAIA school, and was beginning to pursue a professional career.
That was already a lofty goal for a player from a school as small as VUL. Then on Nov. 3, 2015, Virgies left his apartment in the early evening and found himself "in the wrong place at the wrong time.