“Dear White People” actor DeRon Horton reveals he was shot before the holidays

DeRon Horton is on the mend.

The actor, who appeared as Lionel Higgins in all four seasons of Netflix series Dear White People, is recovering from being shot.

He shared a series of images of his arm, which was in bad shape, as he recovered at a hospital.

"First off. I wanna give an honor to God for covering me and protecting me to make it out this situation and countless other ones. Everybody that checked on me n holla'd at me specially my family n friends I love yall, Thank you," he wrote. "Gettin shot a few days before Xmas def wasn't on my wish list, but it happened."

He wrote that he'd been shot through his car, and the photos he shared showed the window in pieces.

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"Dear God, thank you for protecting my special Deron," his Dear White People costar Logan Browning wrote in the comments.

Horton, 32, was feeling grateful.

"But I'm Blessed dawg to not be in a casket or paralyzed," he wrote. "Lord Thank You. I'm out the hospital now healing. I got a plate n screws in my mf arm, so I can't workout for a minute which I'm mad about BUT it coulda been worse!"

He added that he doesn't need sympathy.

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"I'm finna bounce right back I feel amazing. I just wanted to remind yall and myself to Keep God first!" he wrote. "Stay Alert n Grateful for Everything. the devil can't stop sh*t when you walk w God."

In addition to the Netflix comedy, which was about students of color dealing with the "daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly as 'post-racial' as it thinks," Horton appeared in Apple TV+'s The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, and in the 2019 edition of American Horror Story.

Jackson wrote in a comment on Horton's post, "Glad you’re still with us, Tuff Stuff!!! Good thing you’re covered by the All mighty Hoping you heal quickly & painlessly as possible Stay Blessed."

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In 2017, he was part of the cast of Denzel Washington's Roman J. Israel, Esq., which he's said was important for him.

"I feel like he's somewhat changed my life, saved my life," Horton told The Hollywood Reporter in June 2018. "I will say that him and other people that I look up to very much and to see this person in the flesh and just know in my high school brain, I was like, 'I just hope to be like him one day,' and I'm sitting here looking at him."

He recalled wanting to ask him thousands of questions.

"We talked about Shakespeare, we talked about God, we talked about love, making mistakes and stuff like that but it was a really, really humbling experience for me."

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