An eight-year-old American boy whose spine was severed in the shooting at a Fourth of July Parade is conscious for the first time since the mass shooting and asking to see his twin brother. 9News
Doctors don't think Cooper Roberts suffered any brain damage from the bullets that hit his chest, the family announced in a statement that confirmed he is paralysed from the waist down.
But now the family is envisioning a "new normal" for Cooper who was wounded in a hail of gunfire that left dozens of others wounded and seven dead in Highland Park, said Tony Loizzi, a family spokesperson, said on Friday. Meanwhile, the boy's mother, who was shot twice in the foot and leg area, has undergone two surgeries and may need a third, Loizzi said.The Highland Park community has been devastated by the shooting that left seven dead and scores injured.
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