Post by Logan on Mar 13, 2016 0:12:27 GMT -6
Shooting survivor Abigail Kopf has spoken for the first time since the Kalamazoo attacks last month, her family said Friday.
"This little girl loves her pig named Hamlet," the family-approved GoFundMe page said in an update. "Tonight, Abbie spoke her first word. It was 'pig.' This gives us great hope that she will regain her speech."
After a 17-day stay at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Abigail is at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital in Grand Rapids. The 14-year-old seventh-grader at Harper Creek Middle School was shot once in the head during a series of random shootings in Kalamazoo County on Feb. 20, when she and four women were attacked while returning to a suburban Kalamazoo Cracker Barrel restaurant parking lot; the other women were killed.
Police say the shooting was part of a spree that night, and that 45-year-old Jason Dalton also opened fire at an apartment complex and a car dealership. A total of six people were killed and two, including Abigail, were severely injured.
Read more: www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2016/03/11/kalamazoo-shooting-survivor-abigail-kopf-speaks-again/81646150/