Bears surprise Highland Park’s Cooper Roberts with wheelchair for the beach

The Chicago Bears, working with Devices 4 the Disabled, gave Cooper Roberts a special wheelchair he can use on the beach. Cooper is in front; behind him, from left: Cooper’s twin brother, Luke, Bears General Manager Ryan Poles, Bears Head Coach Matt Eberflus, Keely Roberts, Cooper’s mother, and Bob Shea, founding director of Devices 4 the Disabled. (Chicago Bears)

Eight-year-old Cooper Roberts loves the beach, but wheelchairs were not made for sand.

Well, not most of them. On Wednesday, Cooper, the boy left paralyzed from the waist down during the mass shooting July 4 in Highland Park, was given the dune buggy version of a wheelchair. It has huge, gray wheels.