It was a day Jason and Keely Roberts thought they would never see. Their 8-year-old son, Cooper returned to school for the first time since suffering life-threatening injuries from the Highland Park shooting on July 4.
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The third grader will need to remain in day therapy each week and will be reevaluated on a consistent basis, which will mean a “slow and gradual” transition back to school.“Nevertheless, his return to school this week is an incredible milestone for a little boy who almost three months to the day of his first day of third grade had been desperately fighting for his life from critical gunshot wounds and is now wheelchair bound,” the family said.
“The endless ‘what if’ questions he thinks about … these run across his mind and out literally all day long, like an endless reel of worry,” the family said. “We have also learned, fast and hard, that we can only take one day at a time.”Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox each afternoon.There is sadness and pain with Cooper’s return to school, the family said.
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