HOSPITAL HORROR

Mom of Shooting Victim Working in ICU When Her Child Arrived

The family have launched a fundraiser after the horror crime.

The mother of Minneapolis school shooting victim Sophia Forchas is a nurse who was working at the hospital her daughter and other victims arrived at for emergency treatment on Wednesday. A GoFundMe campaign, organized on behalf of Forchas’ father, Thomas, to raise money for 12-year-old Sophia’s severe injuries, revealed her mother is a Pediatric Critical Care nurse. “She arrived at work to help during the tragedy, before knowing it was her children’s school that was attacked, and that her daughter was critically injured,” the GoFundMe page states. “Sophia was shot during the attack and is currently in critical condition in the ICU.” The campaign says Sophia has had emergency surgery, noting that, “Her road ahead will be long, uncertain, and incredibly difficult—but she is strong, and she is not alone.” Sophia’s GoFundMe has already raised over $470,000 from a target of $620,000. The organizers state that funds raised will also go to trauma counseling for the family’s two children, as Sophia’s brother was at the school at the time of the shooting. It will also cover critical medical care and recovery for Sophia. Two children were killed in the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on Wednesday, with 15 students injured.