BARROW COUNTY, Ga. — A 15-year-old girl has been identified as one of nine people wounded in the shooting at Apalachee High School earlier this month.
Natalie Griffith’s family says she was shot at least twice in her shoulder and arm.
They say the teenager had surgery to save part of her arm and her hand, including a full reconstruction of her wrist. Less than a week after the shooting, she was released from the hospital with surgeons saying her wounds were healing well.
Natalie Griffith and her mother, Marilda Griffith, appeared on Thursday night as part of a town hall with Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey in Detroit, Michigan.
The young woman described to the vice president where she was shot.
“Right here on my shoulder and around here,” she pointed out in the town hall being livestreamed nationwide.
Marilda Griffith told the vice president and Winfrey that she’s grateful her daughter survived, but grieves for the families of those who didn’t.