(Reuters) - A 16-year-old girl who was critically wounded this week when she was shot by a fellow student at her high school in Maryland will be taken off life support on Thursday evening, her mother said. Melissa Willey told a news briefing at Prince George’s Hospital Center in Cheverly, Maryland, that she would take her daughter, Jaelynn Willey, off life support because she was brain dead. We will be taking her off life support this evening. She is brain dead and has nothing, no life left in her,” Melissa Willey told reporters. Baltimore Sun via Getty Images Jaelynn Willey's parents, Melissa and Daniel Willey, announced on Thursday that they plan to take her off life support.

Source: Huffington Post March 23, 2018 05:03 UTC