ATLANTA — The lone survivor of a shooting spree in Midtown that left two people dead in August just got off a ventilator, his daughter said.
Michael Horne remains in the hospital after he was shot last month at a condo building along with two other men. Michael Shinners and Wesley Freeman were both killed.
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Police said the shooter, Raissa Kengne, had filed a federal lawsuit against her condo association accusing them of allowing a former employer to break into her home.
Horne was the building’s chief engineer. Shinners was the property manger. Freeman was Kengne’s former manager at an accounting firm.
Channel 2′s Tom Jones was at Atlanta Medical Center Thursday, where he talked to Horne’s daughter.
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Alison Page said her father celebrated a birthday in the hospital and raved about the care he is getting.
Page said doctors and nurses saved her father’s life, which is why she wants Atlanta Medical Center to be saved as well. The hospital abruptly announced earlier this month that it will shut down on Nov. 1. AMC is one of just two Level 1 trauma centers in metro Atlanta, including Grady Memorial Hospital.
Page said her father was rushed to AMC after the shootings because Grady was full. Page said she thinks her father would have died if the doors to AMC were closed.
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“If this hospital closes, other hospitals are not going to be prepared for the type of injury that my dad had, or the type of injury that you see every day on the news,” Page said. “This was the next-best Level 1 trauma. The only other Level 1 around. People are going to die if Grady is full, which they are most times.”
Page said her father still has a long way to go, but he’s improving.
“He’s getting better,” Page said. “He’s doing good.”
Page is urging community leaders to find a way to keep the hospital open. She said the family was told Thursday that Horne was being moved to a rehab facility, which is a transfer the family did not approve.
Page said she’s not sure if patients are already being moved in advance of the closing, but Horne’s doctors said they did not give the approval to move him.
“He’s nowhere near ready for a rehab facility,” Page said.
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