The 14-year-old who was shot in the head at close range by Uber driver Jason Dalton is in Kalamazoo, Michigan, is determined to make a dramatic recovery, NBC News reported.
The doctors believed Abigail Kopf was brain dead after the shooting. As they prepared to harvest her organs, her mother felt a jolt. It was Abigail squeezing her hand.
"Every time I see a cemetery or just a funeral home, all I can do is think to myself — I hate to be selfish — but I'm so glad she's not there," her mother, Vicki Kopf, told NBC News. "I'm glad she's got the willpower to hold on how she did and fight like she did."
The bullet struck Abigail in the frontal lobe — a region of the brain that controls everything from motor function and memory to emotion and language. By mid-March, she'd whispered her first words. She'd also had nightmares about a man with a gun.
