Shot Senior Graduation Surprise: Student President Shot In Head Two Months Ago Returns To School To Give Commencement [Video]

Northwestern High School senior, Balaal Hollings, was shot in the head two months ago while breaking up a fight at a party and was out for the rest of the year. But he made it back for graduation surprising fellow classmates and teachers with joy.

Only two months ago, Northwestern High School senior Balaal Hollings was shot in the head at a party. Hollings, who was a football star and an honor student, didn't return to the school for the remainder of the year.

He's also the student council and senior class president at Northwestern High School. 

The party on that fateful April 6 was the birthday party for one of his best friends. 

Hollings told ABC News, "I had missed her dinner [his friend who's birthday it was], so I promised to make it to the party. After the party, some East Side boy was shooting for no reason. A bullet hit the wall, and then it hit me."

The bullet entered the shot senior's temporal lobe said his older sister, Nuballa Hollings, who has helped raised Balaal after their mother passed away two years ago. 

Hollings didn't know his shooter and told ABC News, "He wasn't invited. He just showed up, crashed the party."

After recovering in the hospital he entered a rehab facility and his sister, Nuballa said she didn't allow his friends to visit him.

"My therapist said the best part of therapy is when my phone died," he said.

After initially saying he wasn't going to be released until, at the very least June 15, Hollings set about rehabbing harder than anyone else. 

"He advanced way faster than we thought that he would," his sister said. "He was just fighting so hard. He looked up, and it was like, 'Oh my God, it's my brother again!'"

The hospital didn't officially release Hollings until today, but he kept his appearance at graduation 

Said Hollins when he first took the stage, "First of all, I want to thank God. It is so good to be alive," as the audience teared up and roared their approval around him. 

Just an inspiring story about a really dedicated and upstanding kid that didn't let a gunshot wound to his head stand in the way of his graduation.