The Texas cheerleader shot after a friend mistakenly got into the wrong car in a grocery store parking lot in Elgin is recovering from surgery.
Payton Washington was shot in the leg and back and required surgery to remove her ruptured spleen, her father, Kelan Washington, told NBC News. The 18-year-old is in the ICU and stable, and although heavily sedated, she has been able to talk to visitors when she is awake.
He described his daughter, who was born with only one lung, as a star athlete who is “tough as they come.”
