‘I’m Going To Die On Ninth Street.’ Shot 7 Times, Store Owner Makes Miraculous Recovery

When Martin Olive saw a random man point a pistol at his face, he thought it was a water gun.

“I thought it was the beginning of a stupid TikTok prank,” the 47-year-old cannabis shop owner told The Standard in an interview Wednesday. “I couldn’t conceive of why anyone would want to shoot me.”

Seconds later, he was on the ground, screaming in pain after being struck by bullets in the cheek, chest, and back, asking, “Why me?” as a coworker called 911 and others ran to his aid.

Since his life was turned upside down during a Jan. 27 smoke break outside his dispensary, the Vapor Room at Ninth and Mission streets, Olive still hasn’t come up with a good answer as to why he was targeted or how he survived.

But many of his friends who spoke to The Standard said that if anyone were to be shot seven times, only to miraculously survive and be cracking jokes about it days later, it would be Olive. Being riddled with bullets may not have even been his closest brush with mortality: He nearly died of a brain aneurysm 12 years ago.

“Martin is a nine-lives kind of guy,” said Ferris Plock, who has known him for more than two decades. 

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