‘She’ll never walk again’: Family asks for help after KCK teen paralyzed in shooting
The mother of a young woman shot multiple times in Kansas City, Kansas, is asking for help supporting her daughter, who is now quadriplegic.
Brandi Casey wrote in a GoFundMe online fundraising post that her daughter, 18-year-old N’Deia Porter, will soon need extra support at home once she is released from the hospital.
“She graduated high school early in January 2021 with honors and was working an full time job,” Casey wrote of her daughter. “Only to have someone gun her down (and) leave her for dead.”
Casey’s goal is to raise $100,000 to help cover the expenses of medical equipment and to make their home accessible for her daughter’s new level of mobility. They also plan to use the money to help fund a new van that’s wheelchair accessible and a generator to help power all the medical equipment Porter needs.
When the online fundraiser was created over the weekend, Porter was preparing to be discharged from the hospital and begin rehabilitation in another state, her mother wrote.
Porter’s family told FOX4 that she had been shot more than seven times in her car in late September, including in her neck, stomach, legs and spine.
“She’ll never walk again, or she won’t be able to move her arms or limbs. She won’t be able to work — the thing she loved doing. She’ll be confined to a wheelchair or a bed,” Casey told the TV station.
As of Tuesday morning, the GoFundMe raised nearly $4,400.
“This is going to be (a long) journey but with a little encouragement and support I know she will be ok,” Porter wrote.
This story was originally published November 2, 2021 at 7:53 AM.
