Mitchell took full responsibility for the accident. He admitted to People that he rode off with no protective gears on a road he didn't know.
It was totally my fault. I took off in the dark without a helmet on a road I didn’t know.
He had been taken to Beaufort Memorial Hospital, and the doctors there were not sure if he would survive the airlift to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. But Mitchell was a fighter — always had been.
The NCIS: New Orleans actor plowed through recovery one step at a time. It didn't matter how many bones in his body the accident broke; it was nowhere near enough to break his spirit.
I’m going to keep doing what I do, which is striving for a great career.
Though he recovered from the wounds, he was paralyzed from the chest down. He had to work through therapy just to put on his sneakers.
Less than a year after the crash, he trained himself to get dressed, drive, shoot pool, and even take a few rounds off at the pistol range.
