Author: Rebecca Lopez Published: 9:11 AM CDT August 23, 2016 Updated: 9:11 AM CDT August 23, 2016 DALLAS -- It was the moment that changed Lieutenant Carlton Marshall's life forever on Oct. 17, 2007. "I don't remember why for sure, but I went in and broke out a window and moved the curtain," he says. On the other side of that curtain was 19-year-old Marlisa Villa. She fired out the window while holding a 4-month-old baby in her arms. Police say she used the baby as a shield. "The suspect was hiding behind the bed and shot me when I moved the curtain out of the way," Marshall says. Soon he was bleeding to death. "I had gotten shot right in my neck. The bullet caused vertebrae damages. The bullet severed one of my arteries." Marshall was a lieutenant on the Dallas Police Department's SWAT team. They were running a warrant on people linked to Mexican drug cartels at a home in Oak Cliff. Dr. Alex Eastman and Dr. Jeff Metzger were on the scene. They are also trained members of the SWAT team and performed an emergency surgery right there on the front lawn of the home. "[I[ had to surgically open his airway and place a tube though this neck and into his windpipe to breath for him because he would not breath on his own," Dr. Eastman says. The shooting left Marshall paralyzed. Initially doctors thought he would be a quadriplegic, but slowly he regained movement of one arm and partial movement in the other. "I got an awakening in the hospital by God, and during that time I had a repentance, and shortly after that I started getting movement," he says. Now almost nine years later, Carlton Marshall is doing one of the things he loves the most -- golfing. "It absolutely feels great." Marshall was an avid golfer before the shooting, often playing with his dad. His dream was to one day play with his son. News 8 was there when that dream came true at a small golf course in Red Oak. "It's just a thrill." Marshall is now able to play golf because of a special golf cart

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