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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Shooting victim's donated kidney saves Texas teen's life

9News, Colorado News Leader

DALLAS - A Dallas, Texas teenager met the family of his kidney donor for the first time as part of the National Donor Sabbath.

Churches around the country held special services Sunday to promote organ donation.

Mason Salazar, 20, lost his life July 1 from a shooting.

While his family grieved, they made a decision that let another family keep their son alive.

"We just started screaming and shouting and jumping. And I said, 'It's time, it's time. We have a kidney,'" Cynthia Jefferson, mother of Bryson Lewis, 16, who would receive Mason Salazar's liver, said.

Lewis had suffered kidney failure and went through dialysis.

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