Doctors say 12-year-old Sophia Forchas remains in critical condition 10 days after being shot in the head during a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis.

Two children died and 21 people were injured when a shooter fired multiple weapons at students and adults attending Mass on Aug. 27.

Dr. Walt Galicich, chief of neurosurgery at Hennepin Healthcare, says Forchas is in a medically induced coma and that a bullet remains lodged in her brain. The bullet’s path, Galicich said during a news conference Friday, injured critical blood vessels.

“I can’t tell you how this is going to end,” he said. “I don’t know what her permanent deficits are going to be, but we’re a little more optimistic that she’s going to survive.”

One worry for doctors and family members is

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