Overview

• Her family said Monday she is showing steady neurological improvement and will transfer later this week from HCMC’s acute unit to an inpatient rehabilitation program.
• The 12-year-old was shot in the head on Aug. 27 during a school Mass, underwent a decompressive craniectomy, and still has a bullet fragment lodged in her brain.
• She spent more than two weeks in critical condition before being upgraded to serious on Sept. 11, when her neurosurgeon described any recovery as a “miracle.”
• A GoFundMe for medical care and trauma counseling has raised more than $1 million, according to the campaign and local reports.
• The attack killed 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski and injured about 21 others, while families seek stronger gun laws and Gov. Tim Walz has pledged a special session with no date set.