FULTON COUNTY, Ga. -- A Fulton County prosecutor is back on the job after becoming a victim of domestic violence. She's planning to help other victims by shaping new policies. Jennifer Leslie was there as April Ross returned with a mission.
"Amazing" is how April Ross described her first day back in the Fulton County District Attorney's Office.
She had to put her job as a prosecutor on hold after being paralyzed from the chest down.
"No one has the answer to what I can get back and what I can do. I'm not going to give up trying to get back everything," she said.
Ross has spent the last 19 months fighting.
In April of 2014, she was ambushed by her estranged husband, who shot her and later killed himself.
Fulton DA Paul Howard remembers rushing to the hospital to see Ross, who was hooked up to tubes and unable to talk.
"I said to her, April is there anything I can do? And April wrote, give me a raise. And when I saw that, I felt that she was going to make it. She was going to survive," Howard said.
Howard delivered on his promise...giving her a raise and a new role.
A victim herself, she'll fill a new domestic violence policy position.
"I feel driven to pursue anything I can that will save another life," Ross said.
She'll give the issue her full attention, while working a reduced schedule for now.
DA Paul Howard said Ross and his office will push for new guns laws including one that would make it harder for someone to get a gun after filing for divorce.
He also wants to require anyone with a domestic violence charge--even a first offense--to give up their firearms.
