Sophia Forchas, the 12-year-old Annunciation Catholic Church and School shooting victim who doctors feared wouldn’t survive her brain injuries, was released from Gillette Children’s hospital in St. Paul on Thursday.

Sophia is the last of the 30 victims who were injured in the Aug. 27 shooting in Minneapolis to be released from the hospital.

Two children — 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski — were killed. On Sept. 5, Sophia’s neurosurgeon, Dr. Walt Galicich, said there was a chance that Sophia would be the third fatality in the shooting, which was committed by a 23-year-old former Annunciation student who died by suicide. Authorities haven’t publicly identified a motive.

Forty-eight days after the shooting, Sophia was seen walking to a limousine while wearing a blue

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