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Injured FedEx security guard celebrates anniversary from hospital bed

May 27, 2014

The security guard seriously injured when he was shot a Cobb County FedEx facility celebrated his one-year anniversary from his hospital bed on Monday. 
 
Christopher Sparkman was seriously injured when he was one of six employees shot in April by their co-worker, Geddy Kramer. Kramer then killed himself, but no one else was fatally injured.
 
Sparkman was shot in the stomach at close range with a shotgun. He is set to undergo his 14th operation on Tuesday.
 
On Monday, he and his wife, Jamie Lynn, celebrated their anniversary at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital.

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