The 8-year-old boy who was paralyzed from the waist down in the July 4 Highland Park shooting is thankfully off a ventilator and talking again, his family said in a statement. Cooper Roberts’ condition has been upgraded from critical to serious by staff at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital. “He is conscious for the first time and has been taken off the ventilator but is in a lot of pain,” Roberts’ family wrote in a statement. “Cooper wants to see his 8-year-old twin Luke and his dog George.” After the shooting, his twin Luke was treated for leg wounds, and his mother, Keeley Roberts, superintendent of Zion Elementary School District 6, also received foot and leg sores. Over $1 million has been raised through GoFundMe for medical bills and subsequent treatment and therapy. With any luck, Cooper will be reunited with Luke and George before he knows it.
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