Of the eight people who were wounded and survived the mass shooting and fire Sunday at a Grand Blanc Township church, the first to get treatment at Henry Ford Genesys Hospital was a 6-year-old boy, said the doctor who cared for him.

“His mom walked him through the front door," said Dr. Sanford Ross, the attending physician and assistant director of the emergency department, during a news conference Wednesday.

"He didn’t shed one tear. He walked into the emergency room stoic. Mom was a wreck, which, as a parent, I completely understand, and what I did was I looked at the wound, had an idea of what was going on. I comforted them both by telling him and mom, 'You’re going to get through this. You’re going to be OK.' "

The child was treated and released Sunday, said Dr. Chris Ash, a trauma

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