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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Gino Spocchia

Eight-year-old paralysed in Highland Park shooting is taken off ventilator to breathe on his own

Georgette Topalis / Annie Loizzi / Kelly Roberts / GoFundMe

The eight-year-old boy paralysed from the waist down after the shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, has been taken off a ventilator and is now breathing on his own.

In an update on Monday, Cooper Roberts’s family said he had improved over the weekend and “is no longer on the ventilator, and is breathing on his own”.

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