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Mom of girl, 9, shot in school: ‘We’re happy she’s still here’
Her 9-year-old daughter Amina nearly died after she was accidentally shot by a classmate, but Teri Bowman said she refused to accept the possibility that she would lose her child. “We’re so happy that she’s still here,” she said in a report airing Friday. More
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Mom of girl, 9, shot in school: ‘We’re happy she’s still here’
Her 9-year-old daughter Amina nearly died after she was accidentally shot by a classmate, but Teri Bowman said she refused to accept the possibility that she would lose her child. “We’re so happy that she’s still here,” she said in a report airing Friday.
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