Mother on the front lines

Amy had rushed to Hennepin Healthcare early Wednesday as ambulances began arriving from Annunciation Catholic School and Church, where a gunman barricaded the doors before firing 50 to 100 shots through the church’s stained-glass windows. Among the critically injured was her 12-year-old daughter, Sophia, who was rushed into emergency surgery as her mother worked nearby in the ICU.

“Her mother arrived at work to help during the tragedy, before knowing it was her children’s school that was attacked, and that her daughter was critically injured,” a family friend wrote in a fundraiser.

Sophia’s road to recovery will be long and uncertain, loved ones said, but the family is clinging to hope. Her younger brother was also inside the church during the shooting. Though physically unharmed, he now faces the trauma of having witnessed the attack and knowing his