After more than two weeks in the hospital, the 6-year-old boy who was critically injured after being struck by a minivan at Harrisburg’s Kipona Festival earlier this month was welcomed home Friday.

Elizabeth Bohrer, 37, crashed into Faiz Sharif around 6 p.m. on Sept. 1 on North Front Street, breaking his pelvis, ribs and jaw, which required multiple surgeries.

After spending days in a coma, Faiz opened his eyes and started to show “basic signs of awareness,” his family said a little over a week ago.

Dozens of Faiz’s schoolmates, their parents and family members made homemade signs, posters and garland to welcome him home for the first time in 18 days.

Some of the signs read “Faiz! Welcome Home!!!,” “Faiz is amazing” and “Faiz the awesome has returned.”

As Sajeel Shah, Faiz’s uncl

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