Three years ago, Paige Havell was a 24-year-old with dreams of designing clothes and shoes. Today, she’s 27, living in a long-term care facility, paralyzed from the chest down, her life forever altered by an act of violence that, she says, amounted to a “life sentence.”

On May 16, 2023, a heated argument with her partner James Alexander Brown, 42, ended in horror.