The Brief
- Annunciation student Lydia Kaiser this past week returned to the church pew she was sitting in during the Aug. 27 mass shooting.
- Lydia Kaiser also went back to the mechanical closet she hid in with her father until the area could be cleared.
- She suffered serious injuries while protecting a friend during the shooting. She returned to school with one side of her head shaved to show solidarity to another student who returned with her head shaved.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Lydia Kaiser, an eighth grade student injured in the Aug. 27 Annunciation shooting, returned to the church two months later for the first time since the incident.
Lydia Kaiser sits in church pew where she was shot
The backstory:
According to a GoFundMe to help throughout her healing process, Kaiser this past week returned to Annunciation Church. She went to the pew where she was shot on the morning of Aug. 27 as they had an all-school mass. A gunman opened fire, killing two students and wounding 28 other people.
Kaiser not only went to the pew, she went to the mechanical closet where she hid with her father for safety. She also cut her hair on the other side of her head as a show of solidarity to another student who returned to school with her head shaved.…