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Family provide update on 12-year-old girl critically injured in Canada school shooting

Canada school shooting leaves nine dead as female suspect is identified

The family of a 12-year-old girl who was critically injured in a mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School said she “made it through the night” after undergoing surgery to stop bleeding.
The girl, named Maya, was taken to a children’s hospital in Vancouver to receive treatment for a gunshot injury that she sustained, her mother, Cia, said in a Facebook post Tuesday. A GoFundMe was set up by Cia’s cousin to assist the family in medical treatment payments.
In an update Wednesday afternoon, Krysta Hunt thanked donors for contributing to the medical fund and said Maya underwent surgery to help stop bleeding as a first step toward recovery.
“We are still in a very risky state, and care and long term recovery is unknown,” Hunt wrote.
The GoFundMe, which has yet to be verified by the organization, raised more than $40,000 as of Wednesday afternoon.