Brewers honor 8-year-old injured in Highland Park shooting

Cooper Roberts was honored by the Milwaukee Brewers with a jersey, because the 8-year-old boy recovers from his accidents.
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The Milwaukee Brewers positioned a ceremonial jersey of their dugout Friday to honor an 8-year-old fan of the staff who was wounded through the July Fourth mass capturing in a Chicago suburb.

Cooper Roberts took bullets within the chest through the capturing at a parade in Highland Park, Illinois, that left seven useless. His household stated his backbone was severed and he's paralyzed from the waist down. The Brewers hung a jersey of their dugout with the identify Roberts and Christian Yelich’s jersey quantity, 22.

Cooper’s household stated Friday that he had regained consciousness for the primary time because the capturing. They stated docs don’t imagine he suffered any mind harm.

“The energy to undergo one thing like that's unimaginable,” Brewers supervisor Craig Counsell stated earlier than the staff’s sport Friday night time in opposition to the Pittsburgh Pirates. “We’re doing such a small factor, however hopefully it could possibly perhaps make one a part of the day for them a bit bit higher.”

Cooper Roberts was left paralyzed from the waist down after being shot within the chest through the Highland Park parade capturing.

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The Brewers stated in a press release that “we're engaged on different initiatives to attach gamers with Cooper and his household, however the precedence for now could be to give attention to their restoration.”

“We’re joyful he’s a Brewer fan and need to acknowledge that and let their household know we’re excited about them,” Counsell stated.