‘Dear White People’ Actor DeRon Horton Reveals He Was Shot

DeRon Horton, an actor best known for his work on Netflix Dear White Peopleis on the mend after being shot last month. Horton revealed the news in an Instagram post with a photo of himself in a hospital bed and a series of images of his injured arm.

” First of all. I want to give credit to God for covering and protecting me out of this situation and countless others. Everyone who checked on me and greeted me, especially my family and friends, I love you all, thank you,” he wrote. “Gettin was filmed a few days before Christmas, it definitely wasn’t on my wish list, but it happened.”

Horton described how he was shot through his car and the bullet broke his arm. “I kind of broke it,” he wrote. “But I’m blessed, man, that I’m not in a coffin or paralyzed, Lord, thank you.” The actor added that he is now out of hospital and is “healing” but now has a plate and screws in his arm.

“I can’t work out for a minute, which I’m mad about BUT it could have been worse!” he concluded the message. “And I don’t need sympathy, I’ll bounce right back, I feel amazing. I just wanted to remind all of you and myself to keep God first! Stay vigilant and grateful for everything. the devil can’t stop shit when you’re walking with God.

Samuel L. Jackson, Horton’s co-star in the Apple TV+ series The Last Days of Ptolemy Graywas among the well-wishers in the comments. Glad you’re still with us, Tuff Stuff!!! Jackson wrote. “Luckily you are covered by the Almighty. Hoping you heal as quickly and painlessly as possible. Stay blessed.

Horton appeared in all four seasons of Dear White People like Lionel Higgins. He appeared as a series regular in the 2019 edition of American Horror Storystarred alongside Denzel Washington in Roman J. Israel, Esq.and played Lou Carter in the series American Vandal. The actor said The Hollywood Reporter in 2018, working with Washington impacted the trajectory of his career.

“I feel like he changed my life somewhat, saved my life,” Horton said. “I will say that him and other people that I really admire and seeing that person in the flesh and knowing in my high school brain, I was like, ‘I just hope to be like him one day,’ and I I’m sitting here watching it.