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FOX 9 viewers deliver Christmas tree surprise for 3-year-old girl who survived Minneapolis shooting
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – It’s the spotlight of the FOX 9 Vacation Season, on Tuesday, morning anchors Alix Kendall and Tom Butler ship a tree and bins of viewer-gifted ornaments, decorations and a lot extra.
This 12 months, we shocked one particular, little woman who has been via a fairly terrible few months.
Three-year-old Olivia Walker was struck by a bullet on the facet of her head whereas sleeping subsequent to her mother of their north Minneapolis dwelling again in October. Photographs capturing the home riddled with gunfire. Olivia would spend every week within the hospital together with her mother and father fearing the worst. Happily, they prevented any catastrophic accidents by the slimmest quantities. In actual fact, a scar is all that’s left.
“It was like inches away, in order that they did not hit right here, not on the temple,” stated father Alex Walker. “So, yeah, we’re blessed. Mother moved her simply in time.”
With the help of others locally, the Walkers by no means went again to that “nightmare” home after leaving the hospital. They only moved into their new house in a downtown condo just a few weeks in the past.
Our FOX 9 viewers go above and past to offer Olivia, her 8-year-old brother Ja’Kobe and their mother and father a Christmas to recollect.
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