Two 16-year-old Alabama high school cheerleaders are currently “fighting for their lives” after they were shot multiple times, including in the head, during a mass shooting that took place last month.
The Daily Mail reports that both Cara Johns and Trinity Richards were shot in the head after six gunmen allegedly opened fire on a girl’s Sweet 16 birthday party at a local dance studio.
One of Johns’ parent offered a harrowing recollection of the tragic events.
“At 11:10 Saturday, April 15, 2023, our nightmare began. I was told my beautiful 16-year old daughter had been a shooting victim in the mass shooting at a birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama.
“I rushed to the local hospital only to discover Cara was not at that location. Because of the overwhelming chaotic situation, I had to search two more hospitals before discovering where she was.
“The physician in charge told us Cara’s condition may not be survivable. This was a nightmare we couldn’t awaken from. She had left in a beautiful prom dress but now she was covered in a bloody hospital sheet.
“Cara was then rushed by ambulance to a facility in Georgia that specialized in gunshot head injury. A bullet had penetrated her brain, passing through the frontal lobe and lodging there.
“She had to have immediate emergency surgery. But that wasn’t all. She’d also been shot in the chest and in the stomach, three bullet wounds. Unbelievable and a miracle she was still living.”
Four people died in the mass shooting and 28 others were injured.
