12-year-old Tumbler Ridge shooting victim’s planned surgery didn’t happen, mother says

A planned surgery for Maya Gebala, the 12-year-old Tumbler Ridge shooting victim fighting for her life in BC Children’s Hospital, didn’t happen.

Her mother, Cia Edmonds, shared the update in a social media post late Friday.

“Today’s surgery to have her skull full again, didn’t happen,” the post says.

“A leaking abscess in the centre of her brain took over.”

Maya, who is in the ICU in a medically induced coma, had been scheduled to have a prosthetic piece of skull put in place in early Friday, her mother had said.

Edmonds said while her daughter still can’t talk, she can move an arm and a leg and follow movement with one eye.

This would have been her fourth surgery since she had been shot and suffered severe brain injuries in the Feb. 10 mass shooting that left eight victims dead in the small town.