Keely Roberts made her first statement to the press this week, nearly a month after the Highland Park parade shooting that changed her family’s life and left one of her young sons paralyzed.
Cooper Roberts, an 8-year-old boy paralyzed from the waist down after being wounded at the Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park, is back to critical condition, a family spokesman said. He's the son of Zion Elementary School District 6 Superintendent Keely Roberts, who was at the Highland Park parade with Cooper and his twin brother, Luke, when shooting erupted. All three were shot.
But the painful memory of the shooting reminds her that the family’s life will never be the same. Cooper’s twin brother Luke was also injured. Keely Roberts, a superintendent at Zion Elementary School District 6, was shot in the foot and leg, and Luke was wounded in the leg by shrapnel. Their four older daughters did not attend the parade.
The mother recalled Luke had to hold a tourniquet on her leg and see his twin brother’s lips go gray. He sat covered in their blood as good Samaritans provided first aid and kept both Cooper and Keely alive. “I am so incredibly sad for Cooper and what he faces on the road ahead. He is athletic and fun-loving and never met a person who wasn’t an instant friend — how does he move on?” Roberts asked.
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