Drew Stokes (Surviving a Murder Attempt, Trauma Medicine and Altruism) - Episode 148

Behind The Shield

James Geering

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness

4.9 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Agent Drew Stokes is an Agent for the Air Marine Operations division of US Customs and Border Protection. Drew survived a murder attempt after getting groceries at a local store. We discuss how close he came to death, how training saved his life, trauma medicine, rehabilitation and Crossfit and so much more.

"On September 26th, 2017 I was ambushed in cold blood walking out of a Publix grocery store just outside of Jacksonville, FL. From start to fished the entire sequence lasted about five seconds.I was hit five time, once center mass, once in my right buttock, a round in each hip/leg, one in my left forearm. My injuries were catastrophic, bullet number one lacerated my liver, bullet number two comprised my colon, I have three bullets in my body, one in each hip, the other next to my spine.I wavered between life and death for several days, going to the other side twice. I completely bled out and was given 19 Trauma Units of blood to keep me alive. I was saved by heroic bystanders, the Clay County Sheriff’s Department, Clay County Fire Department, and the Trauma Staff at the Orange Park Medical Center. I owe my life to them.

Through hard work, an amazing rehab team and support at home, work, my amazing friends and around the country I returned to light duty on January 2, 2018, after eleven surgeries I returned to full duty on April 9, 2018 and returned to the sky in June of 2018.

I will never quit on recovery."

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 148 of Behind the Shoe podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing.
0:04.8	And this week, I have an incredibly powerful story for you. I was invited into the home of
0:11.1	Agent Drew Stokes as he recounted his story of surviving a murder attempt in the parking lot
0:20.2	of a public supermarket here in America.
0:22.8	And this interview was done less than a year after he almost died.
0:28.2	We are seeing just a horrendous amount of attacks on our law enforcement members.
0:33.9	And it seems like a daily event that we have a line of duty death involved with the murder
0:39.9	of an officer so drew you're going to hear i mean he was just a hair's width from from death came
0:47.3	back and his restore of recovery how he used crossfit as his rehab tool just mentally, how he survived this attack and went back to work in such a short amount of time is going to blow you away.
1:01.0	There's no other expression for it. It's incredible.
1:04.0	So I urge you to listen and I urge you to share the hell out of this because his story needs to be heard heard worldwide,
1:11.4	not only by the people in the first responder community, but by the civilians who are kind of
1:17.7	led down a certain path by certain media outlets. But these men and women swear the oath and
1:24.5	literally lay their lives on the line every single day and drew lived to tell
1:30.9	the tale but many of our brothers and sisters didn't so with that being said as i always say please
1:36.1	go to your podcast apps rate the show share the show but as with this episode share the hell
1:42.2	out of these interviews these these stories, incredible human
1:45.2	beings that I'm blessed to have on this podcast. So without further ado, I introduce to you,
1:50.4	Agent Drew Stokes house.
2:15.4	So thank you first for inviting me to your beautiful home.
2:18.6	Welcome. Thanks for coming up. Thank you. Yeah, I was driving through and it was beautiful
2:22.1	manicured lawns and golf courses and yeah, that's not always where my interviews are. So thank you.
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