MINNEAPOLIS — The father of one of the Annunciation Church shooting victims gave an update about his daughter's condition Friday, alongside the neurosurgeon who operated on her, saying 12-year-old Sophia Forchas isn't "out of the woods" just yet, but she does continue to recover.

"The door's been opened a little bit and there's some rays of hope shining through," Dr. Walt Galicich said. "... If you had told me at this juncture, 10 days later that we'd be standing here with any ray of hope, I would have said it would take a miracle."

Galicich said Forchas suffered a gunshot wound to the left side of her head, and the bullet remains lodged in her brain. In response, surgeons had to remove the left half of her skull to give her brain the room it needed to swell, he said.

Galicich went on

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