Prince George’s County Gazette—May 14, 2011—Legally Blind Gwynn Park Middle Student and Classmates Join to Raise Money for Vision Research

Bjorn Brooks, a 13-year-old seventh-grader from Brandywine, suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, which is causing him to slowly lose his sight. He wears sunglasses and describes the degenerative disease's effect as tunnel vision: like "looking through a tube."