A long recovery remains ahead for an 11-year-old boy who was shot in the head while riding his bicycle through a Cahokia Heights neighborhood on July 21.
Tray “Tray-Tray” Millender remains in a St. Louis Hospital in critical condition, say members of his family. He is breathing on his own and, when he opens his eyes, he recognizes Nona Owens, his great grandmother.
“He still has a neck brace on and doctors are keeping him very still. They don’t know what kind of damage the bullet caused to his brain,” Owens said. “They are going to do an MRI in a few days to determine what damage there is…