Handmade cards from classmates comfort a girl wounded in Minneapolis church shooting, aunt says

"Lying in an intensive care unit hospital bed, 11-year-old Genevieve Bisek is comforted by the many handmade cards she has received from fellow classmates after Wednesday's shooting at a Minneapolis church. Some are decorated with beads, some with sparkling stars. All of them are taped to the walls of her room at the Hennepin County Medical Center, where she has been recovering. Her condition has been upgraded from critical to satisfactory."

"Genevieve was one of the 20 people who were shot during the attack at the Church of Annunciation, as hundreds of students from the nearby Annunciation Catholic School and others gathered for a Mass. The shooter fired 116 rifle rounds through the church's stained-glass windows, leaving two students dead and 18 people wounded, nearly all of them children. The shooter, 23-year-old Robin Westman, died by suicide."

"At least seven people were still in the hospital on Saturday. A spokesperson for Hennepin County Medical Center said five children were being treated there, including four in satisfactory condition and one in critical condition, as well as one adult who was in serious condition. A spokesperson for Children's Minnesota Minneapolis Hospital said doctors there were treating one patient. Genevieve, a sixth grader at the Catholic school who loves animals and playing outside, was conscious after the shooting, Stipek said."

An attack at the Church of Annunciation during a school Mass resulted in 20 people shot, including many children, and two student fatalities. The shooter fired 116 rifle rounds through stained-glass windows and died by suicide. Multiple hospitals treated victims; at least seven remained hospitalized with children among those in critical and satisfactory condition. Eleven-year-old Genevieve Bisek was hospitalized, upgraded from critical to satisfactory, and comforted by handmade cards from classmates. School and community members responded amid ongoing medical care and recovery for the wounded students and adults.

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