Cooper Roberts, the 8-year-old boy paralyzed by a bullet at the Highland Park July 4 mass shooting, is receiving strong painkillers and undergoing demanding physical therapy, leaving him feeling “hopeless, sad and angry as the reality of his life is setting in,” his family said Tuesday.
Since the boy’s gunshot injury, which damaged internal organs and severed his spinal cord leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, the family has provided frequent written updates to the media that give a look at the up-and-down moments throughout his recovery.
