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Was standing there, in a black hat or viesor, black shirt, black pants, face shaded by the visor, and opened fire. all i really remember was one bang. >> the bullets destroyed his right eye and severed the optic nerve in his left eye. the optic nerve connects the eye to the brain. without it sight is impossible. but the bad news, of course, didn't end there. >> how did you find out about susan? >> at some point i asked melissa how is mom doing? melissa said, well, she's not doing quite as well as you. they're working on her somewhere else. you need to hang in there. didn't really mean too much...

Blown off. other shots hit his thumb and shoulder. >> there were six pretty good sized bullet holes. >> reporter: when he was well enough to talk to detectives, sutton told them what he could. the story of a man who barely witnessed the attack that killed his wife and almost killed him. he was a former college swimmer, so he was watching an olympic diving event in the master bedroom, he said. >> next thing i know, somebody was standing there in a black hat or visor, black shirt, black pants. face shaded by the visor. and open fired. all i really remember was one bang. >> reporter: the bullets ...

I won't take no for an answer. >> reporter: some of the best hospitals in the country, sutton had been told there was simply nothing to be done. he would be blind for life. the bullets had permanently destroyed his optic nerve. john had heard about a landmark break through at harvard affiliated research institute in boston where a renowned researcher had regenerated the optic nerve in mice using stem cell therapy and drugs, human trials would be next. so in march 2008, almost three years to the day after his son was arrested, sutton and his girlfriend kathy were on the cold, rain swept streets...

An optic nerve not so much a question of can we, when can we? >> reporter: and it was a good news/bad news sort of day. >> i do not want to mislead you or provide false hopes. >> reporter: yes there might be a cure but perhaps not for five, ten years or more, quite possibly too late for john sutton. >> okay. >> how soon depends on how much funding we can get, how many scientists we can put behind the problem to solve it. >> reporter: sutton told the doctors he would somehow help make it happen. he wrote checks. he joined the board of directors. >> john sutton. >> reporter: he offered himself a...

Or you optional can you treat different ways where surgery is the predominant choice your specialization is the retina and retinal diseases and if you want to examine the retina or to treat it can you do this through an artificial limbs as well for me that doesn't really matter whether i look at the retina through a natural or an artificial ends but i totally examined the retina was the thing you did on my eye today yes so what we do is we look at the optic disc for example that is the where the optic nerve starts that connects basically the eye and the brain in this area we can to observe all...