The Wire actor Tray Chaney shares tearful update after his teen son was carried away by a tornado
The Wire actor Tray Chaney shared an update on his son Malachi's condition after the 19-year-old was carried away by a tornado that swept through their home on May 29.
Chaney, who played Malik 'Poot' Carr on the acclaimed HBO series, revealed last week that a tornado had destroyed his family's home in Locust Grove, Georgia — near Atlanta — while he was in bed.
Malachi was sucked into the vortex and brutally thrown 300ft away from the home — about the length of an American football field — while his father was knocked unconscious before emerging from the wreckage of his home, which was totally destroyed and had collapsed around him.
Luckily, his son survived, but the college student suffered devastating injuries, including broken ribs, multiple scratches over most of his body and fractures on every bone in his face.
But Chaney shared a positive update with TMZ on Wednesday, and he revealed that his son was in stable condition and had finally been moved to a less-severe unit after spending six days in the hospital intensive care unit (ICU).
'But it's going to be a long journey and a long road to recovery. We're not out of the hospital,' he said.
Chaney added defiantly, 'We went to war with a tornado and came out on top,' while noting that everyone in the house could have been killed in the natural disaster.
While Malachi is dealing with lacerations across his upper body, his lower body miraculously escaped without any major cuts, as he had been wearing sweat pants when he was pulled into the air.
Chaney added that he had suffered a head injury after the house fell down around him, so he regained consciousness only to find the wreckage of the destroyed home on top of him while he was lying in the mud.
Neighbors rushed to help him and pull debris off him, but once he was able to look through the home he found nothing in useable condition, except for his cell phone, which miraculously survived in workable condition.
It wasn't initially clear where Malachi was, as he had been tossed into the woods near their home by the deadly winds.
'We went through war with a tornado, you know?' Chaney said in the interview. 'The tough part is watching [Malachi] be stable and respond the best way he can. And every single day, he doesn't know what happened.'
Malachi's hospital stay coincided with his birthday on June 1.
Although Chaney and his family could only have a muted celebration for his son in the hospital, he shared a special message that Shaquille O'Neal had recorded to wish him a happy birthday.
Malachi avoided cuts to his lower body because he was wearing sweatpants when he was swept away and thrown the length of a football field into the woods near his house
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The actor looked back on the devastating tornado — which was later determined to be an EF-2 level storm — and admitted that he didn't realize there was a tornado heading toward them until he heard what sounded like a 'train was coming' while he was in bed.
'I just remember turning to my right and my walls, and my TVs and my dressers and my bed turned upside down and I levitated in the air,' Chaney said as he began to tear up. 'I just remember covering [my face with my arms] like this, yelling my son's name out.'
Luckily, Chaney's wife Ayesha wasn't home at the time of the tornado, but she returned shortly after it hit to find the destruction.
Chaney added that he wasn't sure what the future held for his family now that their home had been destroyed and their lives had been shaken up.
'It's only six days. Me, my wife Ayesha and my son Malachi, [we've] got a long — we're got a lifetime to go because I don't know what's ... coming, and I'm not trying to figure it out,' he said.
The family have since set up a GoFundMe page to help them rebuild while they stay alternate staying with friends and in hotels or shelters. As of Wednesday evening, the fundraiser was only about $1,500 shy of reaching its initial $100,000 goal.
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