ST. PAUL — The condition of the last victim of the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting to remain hospitalized has improved after two weeks.

Sophia Forchas, 12, has improved from critical condition to serious condition as of Thursday morning, Sept. 11, according to Hennepin Healthcare Medical Center. Serious condition, as defined by HCMC , means the patient is acutely ill and there is a chance for improved prognosis.

Sophia is the last of the 21 who were injured in the Aug. 27 shooting to still be under hospital care. Two children — 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski — were killed.

At a Sept. 5 briefing, Sophia’s neurosurgeon, Dr. Walt Galicich, said there was a chance she could be the third fatality in the shooting, but that he was starting to see “rays of ho

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