8-year-old boy paralyzed in parade shooting is back to critical condition; family asks for prayers

CHICAGO — Cooper Roberts, the 8-year-old boy paralyzed from the waist down after being wounded at the Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park is back to critical condition just days after the family had shared in a statement that the boy was doing better. On Tuesday morning the Roberts family shared that the boy’s condition was downgraded as he struggles with a new infection, and one of his lungs is partially collapsed. Doctors also told the family that the last procedure revealed that the tear in Cooper’s esophagus reopened and the boy will undergo an “urgent, complex and lengthy surg...