From the heart: Gunshot victim, 5, becomes donor

Candace Stuart | | Cardiovascular Business | Structural Heart Disease

The family of a 5-year-old girl fatally shot inside her grandfather’s home in Milwaukee while sitting on his lap donated her heart for transplantation, according to U.S. News & World Report. The gunmen who opened fire on the house remain at large.

Heart of child shot in grandfather’s lap donated

Candace Stuart, Contributor

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