{"id":553154,"date":"2026-03-22T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553154\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T11:55:10","slug":"12-year-old-tumbler-ridge-shooting-victims-surgery-didnt-happen-says-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553154\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old Tumbler Ridge shooting victim&#8217;s surgery didn&#8217;t happen, says mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouver.citynews.ca\/2026\/03\/20\/12-year-old-tumbler-ridge-shooting-victim-to-undergo-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">planned surgery for Maya Gebala<\/a>, the 12-year-old Tumbler Ridge shooting victim fighting for her life in BC Children\u2019s Hospital, didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother, Cia Edmonds, shared the update in a social media post late Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s surgery to have her skull full again, didn\u2019t happen,\u201d the post says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA leaking abscess in the centre of her brain took over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonds said while her daughter still can\u2019t talk, she can move an arm and a leg and follow movement with one eye.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A planned surgery for Maya Gebala, the 12-year-old Tumbler Ridge shooting victim fighting for her life in BC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-553154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}