Minnesota hospital staffer joined shooting victim in CT scanner 'so she didn't have to go through it alone'

A hospital staff member went into a CT scanner with one of the young casualties of the Minneapolis church shooting and held her hand so she didn't have to go through it alone a trauma surgeon revealed Thursday Dr Jon Gayden of Hennepin Healthcare notified reporters that Those are the types of things we witnessed the day prior as the injured were seeking clinical care in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church One of the casualties came in and in the crisis department -- there was a nurse manager from another unit didn't have anything to do with what we would normally respond to and one of the children were very scared and alone because everybody was running about doing their jobs Gayden revealed And she went into the CT scanner with the person putting herself basically in the harm's way of radiation which normally would evacuate the room She put a little lead on and stayed there and held her hand and held her hair while she went through the scanner so she didn't have to go through it alone he added MINNEAPOLIS CHURCH SHOOTER ROBIN WESTMAN S FORMER CLASSMATE SAYS SHE KNEW SOMETHING WAS OFF We can describe the things that we saw from our association members and from our hospital and it was inspiring Gayden also declared Taking care of one child that's injured is hard Eight of them is nearly impossible but it happened the previous 24 hours There also were a lot of unrecognized heroes Wednesday including children who were protecting other children during the shooting according to Hennepin EMS Chief Marty Scheerer WHO IS ROBIN WESTMAN SUSPECT IN ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC SCHOOL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS I might be saying too much but we had one kid that covered up another kid and took a shotgun blast to his back and things like that and they were helping each other out Scheerer declared Hennepin Healthcare CEO Thomas Klemond noted as of early Thursday afternoon We as of now have nine patients that were involved in the shooting the day prior Six of those patients are in satisfactory condition Five of those patients are children We have two patients in serious condition one adult and one child And we have one child in critical condition presently he continued This is a horrible unspeakable event that affected our society affected our workforce and obviously affected those directly involved So our hearts go out to the folks that are directly affected Klemond added At Hennepin this is what we do We're a trauma center We take care of the worst of the worst for injuries So this is part of our daily work but we're also human