People from every corner of the Highland Park community sprung into action on July 4 after a gunman opened fire on a parade route in the Chicago suburb
The family of Highland Park, Illinois parade victim Cooper Roberts, 8, said Sunday it's been “a very tough weekend” and that the boy is “in a great deal of pain – physically and emotionally – especially as the family had to share with him the devastating news that he is paralyzed from the waist down.”
An 8-year-old boy who was shot in the chest and gravely injured at the Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park is now paralyzed from the waist down, his family said Friday through their spokesman. Cooper Roberts had remained in critical condition for several days with a severed spinal cord.
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