Cooper Roberts, the 8-year-old Highland Park boy paralyzed in a July 4 mass shooting, has been taken off painkillers and is eating solid foods, his family said Tuesday.
In a weekly update, the Roberts family said that the boy’s spirits are improving as he’s been taken off an IV and rehabilitates from gunshot injuries that badly damaged his internal organs and severed his spinal cord.
The family released the first video of the boy since the shooting, a short clip of him racing his wheelchair in a rehabilitation center hallway.
