Las Vegas shooting victim, Gardner-Webb grad, recovering in Maryland hospital

LAS VEGAS — A 27-year-old Maryland native and Gardner-Webb University graduate who was shot in the eye during the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas is showing promising signs of improvement, doctors and family said this week.

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Tina Frost was shot in the right eye by Stephen Paddock while fleeing the Route 91 country music festival with a group of friends. Frost had been in a coma for over a week, WBAL reported.

Frost is back in Maryland recovering at a hospital. Her family said she will be in the hospital for a while facing several more surgeries and facial reconstruction.

Frost, a 2012 graduate of Gardner-Webb who was a member of the soccer team, was one of more than 500 people injured. Nearly 60 others died in the shooting.

An update posted Friday on the family's GoFundMe page celebrated the good news in her recovery: Frost has emerged from her coma and has taken a few steps with assistance. Frost's family says she has been able to breathe for awhile without assistance.

Dr. Keith Blum, who treated Frost, told

that there's a 90 percent mortality rate for people shot in the head.

Frost underwent a very delicate, three-hour surgery, and some bullet fragments remain in her brain. While Frost lost her right eye and has a long road of recovery ahead of her, she continues to amaze her doctors and family, according to the family’s GoFundMe page.

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