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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota ( WCCO ) -- The mother of a third grader who was shot during the attack on Annunciation Church recounted a painful week while calling on lawmakers to make a change.

"The trauma is palpable, and we are not OK," said Malia Kimbrell, speaking at Hennepin Healthcare on Thursday.

Kimbrell's daughter, 9-year-old Vivian St. Clair, was shot multiple times: twice in the back and once in the arm. Kimbrell says St. Clair hid under the pews, then followed a teacher to safety.

"It was there that her friend said to her, 'Vivi, are you OK? You have a hole in your back,'" Kimbrell said.

The 9-year-old was scooped up by a police officer and taken by ambulance to Hennepin Healthcare's pediatric intensive care unit, the same hospital where Ki

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