The mother of Cooper Roberts, the 8-year-old boy shot and paralyzed in the Highland Park Fourth of July mass shooting, on Wednesday offered her first public statement, thanking the many people who came to her son’s aid.
“I want to thank the people who were there to help us in the immediate aftermath of this tragedy as we were sitting — shocked and scared and bleeding on the sidewalk at a parade in our hometown,” Keely Roberts said in a written statement. “When we were shot, it wasn’t the police or firemen who got to us first, it was community members — an off-duty doctor and nurses, other parade goers — who raced to our sides.”
