The 11 -year -old GENEVIEVEVE BISEK rests in the bed of the intensive care unit hospital, and she feels comfortable with many handcrafted cards that she received from his classmates after Wednesday Shooting the Church of Minynabolis.
Some of them are decorated with beads, some with sparkling stars. They are all registered on the walls of her room at the Henipin Medical County Center, where she was recovering. Her condition was promoted from critical to pathological.
“All these handcrafted cards are very adorned and my heart,” said Jenvv and Wanda Stepick, to Associated Press in an interview on Saturday. “This comes from other children who also have their own shock, yet they still communicate and show their love for her. She has these cards recorded on the walls in her room so that she can see this and be surrounded by this love.”
Jenvv was one of 20 people who were shot while attacking Church of the AnnunciationWhere hundreds of students from the nearby Catholic School and others gathered for the Mass. 116 rifle rounds Through the church -stained glass windows, leaving Two Taliban Almost 18 people were wounded, almost all of them. The shooter, 23 -year -old Robin WestmanHe died due to suicide.
At least seven people are still in the hospital on Saturday. A spokesman for the Henipin County Medical Center said that five children were treated there, including four in a medical condition and one in critical condition, as well as an adult who was in a serious condition. A minynisota spokesman – Minynabolis Hospital said that the doctors there were treating one patient.
Stepick said Jenviev, the sixth grade student at the Catholic School, loves animals and playing abroad, was aware after the shooting. After the authorities cleared the church from the danger, it was gathered with other children to assess their injuries and was transferred to the hospital in an ambulance with another wounded student.
The medical staff has anesthetized Jenvv until Thursday.
“Geneviv is a young, sensitive and emotional girl,” said Stepick. “When I woke up from her anesthesia after the event, the first thing she wanted to talk about, I asked about other children.”
“I cannot say that I hope this is what happened to me because I do not want to happen to anyone else too.” Said Stepick.
Stepick said that Jenvv has not yet been informed of those who died. She said that one of the students was killed, Fletcher Merkel, 8 years old, was a neighbor and friend of the family.
Stipek said that handcrafted cards and other flows supported by society, including tapes associated with the neighborhood and donations that were made online, helped the family overcome their shock.
“I sometimes think that when a terrible thing happens like this, you think about the world as a frightening and dangerous place full of bad people. But we are very late,” she said. “All these things show love and support, and all of this helps us know that there is good there. I think this is part of the healing process. It is important for us to remember that the world is still full of good people.”