The mother of a Grade 7 school shooting victim from Tumbler Ridge, B.C., says Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White has offered to pay for her daughter to be treated in California.
Cia Edmonds says White has offered to pay for 12-year-old Maya Gebala to receive treatment at a “top-tier” hospital in Los Angeles. And that offer may be within reach now that Maya is stable enough to travel, Edmonds said on Facebook this week.
Maya is one of the victims from the Feb. 10 Tumbler Ridge Secondary School shooting that claimed the lives of five students and one teacher’s aide and injured 27 others. She was shot three times at close range, with one bullet entering her head above her left eye, a second striking her neck, and the third grazing her cheek and earlobe. …