CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The Chicago Bears put a big smile on the face of one of the young survivors of the mass shooting in Highland Park last summer.
Eight-year-old Cooper Roberts likes to swim and loves to go to the beach, but in the Fourth of July shooting in Highland Park last year, the boy was left paralyzed from the waist down. His beach visits had been limited because his regular wheelchair would get stuck in the sand.
On Wednesday at Halas Hall, the Bears presented Cooper with a wheelchair specially designed to go over sand. He even got pushed around by quarterback Justin Fields. Cooper left Bears practice Wednesday convinced that the players are his friends, his mother said, and she jokingly added they may soon receive invitations to Cooper’s birthday party.
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