Teen Girl Shot During Kalamazoo Rampage Said To Be Breathing On Her Own
KALAMAZOO (WWJ) - The condition of a 14-year-old girl is improving, more than a week after she survived a mass shooting in Kalamazoo.
Vickie Kopf posted an update about her daughter on Facebook. She says Abigail Kopf's ventilator was removed Sunday and she's breathing on her own. Abigail was outside a Kalamazoo-area restaurant when she was shot in the head on February 20.
Six people were killed - four at the restaurant and two at a car dealership. Another victim is recovering. Jason Dalton is charged with six counts of murder, which carry a mandatory life sentence. A judge denied bail for the 45-year-old former insurance adjuster, who Kalamazoo police Det. Cory Ghiringhelli told the court had admitted to investigators "that he took people's lives."
The admission seemed only to deepen the mystery of what was behind the killings of six people with no apparent connection to the gunman. Police and prosecutors acknowledge a motive may never be fully known.
Funerals and memorial services were held over the weekend. The last was held Sunday at a Battle Creek church to honor Mary Jo Nye, a retired teacher who was killed at the restaurant.
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