On Wednesday, Cooper Roberts, the boy left paralyzed from the waist down during the mass shooting July 4 in Highland Park, was given a dune buggy version of a wheelchair so he could go to the beach.
Well, not most of them. On Wednesday, Cooper, the boy left paralyzed from the waist down during the mass shooting July 4 in Highland Park, was given the dune buggy version of a wheelchair. It has huge, gray wheels.
A big grin brightened Cooper's face as the Chicago Bears, working with the organization Devices 4 the Disabled, presented the boy with his gift after a Bears practice Wednesday. "Getting to the beach, getting down into the sand, it's impossible to do in his regular wheelchair," said a delighted Keely Roberts, the boy's mother, speaking to the Bears organization."It's absolutely impossible. It's one of those things that, as a family, we would never have been able to help Cooper with without the use of a beach wheelchair."
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