After a freak accident left him paralyzed, a Florida officer walked into retirement — literally one step at a time.

Over two years ago, Master Deputy Harold “Hal” Davis of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) fell from a ladder while doing yard work at his home, leaving him unable to walk, officials with the OCSO posted on X.

“Doctors told Master Deputy Hal Davis he may never walk again. Today he stepped into his retirement party,” the post said.

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In a video, Davis walked into his retirement party unassisted.

Davis served on the force with the OCSO for 17 years but spent a total of 32 years in law enforcement.

Since his fall, Davis has been using a wheelchair, but throughout his recovery, he “was determined to walk again and finish his career with OCSO,” according to the post.

Despite the accident, which left Davis with a severe spinal cord injury and unable to breathe as his wife administered CPR, he has had a strong recovery, Fox 10 Phoenix reported.

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The OCSO noted that Davis served Orange County in a variety of ways, including as a court security deputy and as part of the court security response team.

“[He] was honored for training judges and state attorneys on courtroom safety,” OCSO officials wrote on social media.

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Davis also defied the odds in March 2023 by walking his daughter down the aisle at her wedding, a dream he thought had been shattered after his accident, according to Fox Television Stations.

Davis and his wife, Cynthia, have been keeping their friends updated on his recovery journey through a GoFundMe account.

Davis’ retirement ceremony took place Aug. 30 and was welcomed by his family and fellow officers with joyous applause.

Davis has retired from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Orlando, Fla. (Orange County Sheriff’s Office )

“Congratulations on your retirement, Hal! Your service has been invaluable, and your resilience continues to be inspiring,” the OCSO’s post said.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office for comment.

Students in Barrow County, Georgia will return to school next week with “extra support and security, including more law enforcement” in the wake of the Apalachee High School shooting, the district’s superintendent says. 

In a message sent out to parents, Dallas LeDuff says classes “will resume for all students, except for those at Apalachee High School, on Tuesday, Sep. 10. 

“We believe we need to be together as soon as possible to move forward and to provide some sense of familiarity for our students,” he said. “For our Apalachee families, we will send a message to you separately with information about returning.” 

“We know these are challenging times, and we are here for you,” LeDuff added. “We will have extra support and security, including more law enforcement, at each of our schools.” 

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The announcement comes just days after a suspected student shooter opened fire at Apalachee High School in Winder on Wednesday, killing four and injuring nine others. 

“We are in this together, and as a community, we will continue to care for one another,” LeDuff also said in his message. 

The four who are deceased following the shooting have been identified as students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, and math teachers Richard Aspinwall and Cristina Irimie. 

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Police gather outside Apalachee High School following the shooting on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Last night, hundreds of people gathered for a vigil to honor the victims, according to Fox5 Atlanta. 

“There has never been a more important moment for community than now. The best and most important thing for us to do is to be here for one another,” Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., was quoted as saying. 

From left to right: Math teachers Richard Aspinwall and Cristina Irimie were killed at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, along with Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, officials say. (Fox News)

“I see community. I see people that love one another and care for one another,” added Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith. 

The prosecutor who made history arguing the first case against the parents of a child charged with a mass shooting has given a word of advice to the Georgia high school shooting’s prosecutor.

Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald tried the case of the Oxford High School shooter, Ethan Robert Crumbley, in 2021. Crumbley’s parents had given him the gun he would later use to kill four students and injure seven others in November of that year, including a teacher.

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The Oxford High School shooting echoes the Apalachee High School shooting which occurred on Wednesday. 14-year-old alleged shooter Colt Gray’s father, Colin, had given his son the rifle he used to kill four people and injure nine more.

McDonald successfully convicted Jennifer and James Crumbley, Ethan’s parents, in connection with the Oxford High School shooting.

“It’s not easy to obtain a conviction on [this set of] facts,” said McDonald to FOX 2 Detroit. “It’s a gross negligence standard for involuntary manslaughter in Michigan, and it shouldn’t be easy. It should be rare – very rare.”

The prosecutor also stated that not everyone agrees that parents should be held accountable for their children’s actions in court.

“It’s not lost on me that there was not a wave of support or acceptance of the charges when they were announced,” McDonald said to FOX 2 Detroit. 

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“But I knew looking at all the evidence that we had, that is not released to the public, I knew that you don’t get to walk away from that sort of egregious behavior when it was reasonably foreseeable that your kid was going to hurt himself or somebody else.”

McDonald’s main advice to the prosecutors involved in the Apalachee shooting trials against Colt and Colin Gray is to “do the right thing and have courage.”

Colin Gray, 54, the father of Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, 14, enters the Barrow County courthouse for his first appearance, on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Winder, Ga.  (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Of the four who died in Wednesday’s shooting, two were students and two were teachers at Apalachee High School.

Colt Gray is being tried as an adult on four charges of felony murder. 54-year-old father Colin Gray has been charged on four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.

Georgia is one of 42 states, including Washington, D.C., which hold parents responsible for the criminal actions of their children.

The office of Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.