MINNEAPOLIS (NewsNation) — The neurosurgeon treating a 12-year-old girl shot in the head during a school shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school said Friday there are “rays of hope” for her survival, though she remains in critical condition 10 days after the attack.
Dr. Walt Galicich said Sophia Forchas is showing slight movement in her right leg and opening her eyes slightly while being treated in Hennepin Healthcare’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
She was shot in the left temporal lobe during the August 27 attack at Annunciation Catholic School that killed two children and injured 21 people.
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“I’m going to be blunt … Sophia is still in critical condition. There is a chance that she is maybe the third fatality of this event. But the door has been opened a little bit and there are rays of hope shining through,” Galicich said.
Sophia Forchas shows slight leg movement, left half of skull removed
The bullet remains lodged in Sophia’s brain, crossing from one hemisphere to another. Galicich said surgeons removed the left half of her skull to give her brain room to swell and are keeping her heavily sedated in a medically induced coma to control brain pressure…