The Latest Breaking News from Cooper Roberts

The 8-year-old boy’s brain function is a concern after he experiences memory loss and shows issues with fine motor skills, his family said.

The 8-year-old’s spirits are improved, say family members who released a video of the boy racing his wheelchair.

“Nobody’s had experience with this,” said Marty Esgar, a Deerfield High School teacher. “We don’t know how many of our students are going to come with levels of trauma.”

‘He’s an eight-year-old boy who feels hopeless, sad, and angry as the reality of his life is setting in’

It was relatively quiet the morning of July Fourth at Highland Park Hospital.

“What will I do at recess?” paralyzed 8-year-old boy asks his family, who says “the reality of his life is setting in.”

CHICAGO — The summer for 8-year-old Cooper Roberts was suddenly truncated by the mass shooting at the Independence Day parade in Highland Park, where he was wounded and left paralyzed from the waist down. Despite a turbulent recovery, Cooper was finally transferred to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab earlier this month to…

“This is a huge motivation for Cooper as he is excited to return to the classroom and see his friends,” the Roberts family said in a statement.

Cooper Roberts, the 8-year-old boy who was paralyzed at the July Fourth mass shooting in Highland Park has been released from pediatric intensive care after almost a month of turbulent recovery.

Robert E Crimo III is charged with 117 counts connected to the attack, including 21 charges of first-degree murder.

Robert E Crimo is accused of murdering seven and wounding dozens more in an Independence Day mass shooting