Bermuda News | Owain Johnston-Barnes
Four years after his sudden death, 15-year-old Warwick Academy student Dakarai Tucker is still making a difference.
Ryan Miller, who received Dakarai’s heart in a transplant, will visit Bermuda this weekend as part of an ongoing documentary begun after the lifesaving surgery.
Dakarai was at school in January 2008 when he started suffering serious head pains. His condition rapidly deteriorated and he was rushed to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and medevaced to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
It was discovered that a blood vessel in his brain had ruptured, and he fell into a coma.Read more: http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20120223/NEWS/702239958/0
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