Week after Highland Park shooting, community still comes together for vigils, remembering those lost

These memorials have been highly effective for this group, as they hold discovering methods to rally collectively and get via this.

“There are such a lot of people who find themselves injured bodily and mentally, so there’s loads of therapeutic to do, however we’re all right here supporting one another,” longtime Highland Park resident Sue Monhait stated.

Monhait owns a few native companies, and has been utilizing one to assist create greater than 8,000 help ribbons.

It is a small gesture that goes a good distance in uniting her group throughout this tragedy.

“It is simply one other approach to bind folks collectively to point out that we take care of one another, which is de facto what Highland Park has all the time been about and can proceed to be about,” Monhait stated.

Others move by these memorials every morning, praying for his or her group, whereas additionally pondering of their very own luck.

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Stella Flores stated her husband did not really feel nicely on the day of the parade, and that will have saved his life.

“He often works, yearly, in that nook, particularly in that nook, so one thing, God assist us I do not know; he did not go,” Flores stated.

Whether or not these residents have been on the parade or not, they’re all now counting on one another to maneuver on however always remember.

“All people has a narrative of the expertise at the moment, and you do not even have to speak about it, simply being collectively, sharing the frequent state of affairs collectively and having locations and venues to do this has been wonderful,” Monhait stated.

That can proceed Wednesday night time with one other vigil held by town at 7 p.m. exterior Metropolis Corridor, and, within the meantime, there may be nonetheless one sufferer of that capturing combating for his life.

Highland Park capturing: Paralyzed 8-year-old again in essential situation, completes seventh surgical procedure

The household of 8-year-old Cooper Roberts stated his situation has been downgraded from severe to essential, as he stays paralyzed from the waist down.

Roberts can be affected by a extreme fever and an elevated coronary heart fee from a brand new an infection, which is now being handled with medicine.

“I hope, and I feel everybody right here is hoping and praying, that he could have the absolute best end result, nevertheless it’s an extended highway forward,” stated Dr. Ana Velez-Rosborough a trauma surgeon at NorthShore College HealthSystem.

Kin stated he additionally has a partially-collapsed lung.

Cooper did bear profitable surgical procedure to restore a tear in his esophagus.

“That little child, he’s a trooper,” Velez-Rosborough stated.