LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – The parents of a child who is paralyzed from a stray bullet returned to Las Vegas on Friday for an emotional meeting seven months after the shooting.
Porschia Ransey and Gregory Harris met a family who donated a wheelchair-accessible van for their daughter after seeing her story on 8 News Now.
“I really feel like I’m dreaming right now,” Porschia Ransey told the 8 News Now Investigators.
Draya Ransey, 6, was severely injured when a bullet flew through the wall of her family’s Las Vegas apartment last November.
The family relocated to Utah for Draya’s care and did not have a vehicle.
Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Dena Rinetti prosecuted the shooter, noticed the family’s love and resiliency, and put out the call for help on 8 News Now.
8 News Now viewers donated to a GoFundMe account and the local family, who wanted to remain anonymous but also recognized as a Hispanic family, reached out to the 8 News Now Investigators to donate the van.
Friday’s meeting at Las Vegas Metro police headquarters also included officers who responded to the shooting and detectives who investigated it.
A judge sentenced the shooter, Arreion Willoughby to four to 11 years in prison in March. Willoughby, a felon prohibited from possessing firearms, claimed the shooting was an accident.
Gregory Harris and Porschia Ransey planned to drive the van to Utah on Friday afternoon.