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West Palm Beach musician seeks source of debris that nearly killed him

Holden Amory, 22, talks to the media on Monday, May 9, 2016, about the injuries he suffered to his face when a piece of heavy sheet metal smashed through his windshield while he was driving. (Damon Higgins / The Palm Beach Post)

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Holden Amory hopes the public will help track down whoever is responsible for nearly killing him — but might not know it.

On April 29, as the 22-year-old aspiring musician from West Palm Beach drove down Interstate 95 in Boca Raton, a piece of metal flew through his windshield and hit him in the face.

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On Monday, at the office of his attorney, Jack Scarola, reporters saw the “before”: a video of Amory singing and playing guitar and singing Maroon 5’s “Sunday Morning.” They then saw the “after,” as Amory entered, a fedora covering his shoulder-length hair and a giant maroon and black gash running from just to the left of his crumpled nose all the way across his swollen face to his right ear.

“My name’s Holden,” he began. “I got hit in the face with a piece of metal.”

Read the complete story at the Palm Beach Post.