When the gunfire started in Memorial that Sunday morning, May 29, Byron Wilson thought of his family, his wife Kendra and son Ashton.
"Byron texted his wife and told her not to come home with their son because someone was in the neighborhood shooting," said Jennifer Thorpe, a family friend.
Then Wilson grabbed his gun and made the decision to try and help.
"He gives graciously of himself without asking for anything in return," said Lauren Wilson, Byron Wilson's sister. "So the fact this happened is devastating. He wanted to protect the community."
Houston Police say Wilson was outgunned. He never got a round off. The shooter, Dionosio Garza III, took aim and shot him three times in the shoulder and each leg. His mother feared the worst.
"I hear later one dead, and I think it's my son," Sheri Wilson said.
But Byron Wilson survived. Tuesday, his family returned to where it all happened.
"Today, meeting you here today, it hit me," Byron Wilson's mother said.
It's been an emotional two weeks for the Wilson family. No one has had it tougher than Byron Wilson's little boy.
"How do you explain that?" Byron's sister said. "He kept asking where his father was, or is Daddy coming home, will he ever see him again, so my mom told him, ‘Your dad was a sheepdog. He was protecting the sheep form the big bad wolf.’”
A touching moment was captured in a photo on Monday. Byron Wilson got to see his son again. It was the perfect medicine, his family says, for the long road ahead. He's had seven surgeries and counting.
"We don't know how long it's going to be till he can walk," Lauren Wilson said. "He's just sitting there stewing, just telling family, telling Kendra 'I'm so sorry, I just wanted you all to be safe.'"
Byron Wilson will spend six to eight more weeks in the hospital, and those bills are mounting. If you'd like to help the family, you can donate to their GoFundMe page here.