Overview
- In a message shared via a verified GoFundMe, the 12-year-old said she is back in class, helps run the scoreboard, cannot yet play sports, tires more easily, and is having fewer headaches as her hair grows back after surgery.
- Kaiser was shot in the head while protecting a classmate and sustained a traumatic brain injury that required removal of bullet fragments and a procedure removing part of her skull to allow swelling to heal.
- She was released from the hospital in early September and returned to school later that month, according to family updates reported by local outlets.
- The fundraising campaign for her recovery has collected more than $420,000 to help cover medical care and ongoing needs.
- Authorities now count two students killed — Harper Lillian Moyski and Fletcher Merkel — and 30 injured, including 29 by gunfire with 26 juveniles, as families continue pressing lawmakers after Gov. Tim Walz’s call for a special session stalled in the divided Legislature.