Family, community supporting Nash 7-year-old paralyzed after drive-by shooting
The community is rallying around a Nash County second-grader left paralyzed after a drive-by shooting.
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Seven-year-old Miasia Perry was playing on a hoverboard inside her grandparents’ house in Nashville on Sept. 5 when a bullet ripped through the wall and a couch and landed in her spine.
"When they said Miasia had got shot, I lost it," said her grandmother, Dorothy Stallings, who still cannot comprehend the senseless violence.
"Somebody who would do something like that to a 7-year-old?" Stallings said.
Miasia has risen to the challenge with a smile, adapting to her new life in a wheelchair and days filled with doctor's appointments and physical therapy.
But for those who love her, it’s not easy.
"They said that she would not walk again," Stallings said. "It’s hard to see a 7-year-old not being able to walk."
"She says, 'Grandma, I love to dance, but my legs ain’t working now,'" Stallings added.
Nashville Elementary School and the community have also risen to the challenge, raising money to help Miasia and her family.
"She thinks it’s great. She loves people rallying around her," Stallings said.
"[I wish her] a happy life, joyful. I hope she can manage, I think she can," Stallings said. "We’ll be there to help her."
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