Family Announces Sad News about Cracker Barrel Shooting Victim
Kayla Allen's health takes a turn for the worse
The only survivor of the April 12 shooting at Cracker Barrel is not expected to recover, a family friend said Friday afternoon on Facebook.
Kayla Allen's health "has taken a turn for the worse," Mark Karr wrote on the Kayla Allen Benefit Fund page.
Her family has decided to place the 10-year-old in a hospice care program.
"I have been asked to deliver the most heart breaking news. Kayla’s health has taken a turn for the worse. After extensive discussions with the doctors and long prayerful consideration amongst themselves, Kayla’s family made the decision to place her in the Hospice Care Program at Hospice of the Western Reserve. Everyone is in agreement that this is what is best for Kayla," the page says. "Please pray for Kayla’s physical and her family’s emotional comfort."
Kayla was recovering from her gunshot wound and was upgraded to fair condition at MetroHealth Medical Center when she suffered a brain aneurysm.
She has not been able to move her limbs since then, the Facebook page has said.
Police say Kayla's father, Kevin Allen, walked into the Brooklyn Cracker Barrel with a gun April 12 after his wife, Kate, told him she was leaving. Allen shot Kate and both daughters before police shot and killed him leaving the restaurant.
Kate and daughter Kerri, 10, were killed.
Karr said on Facebook that an announcement will be made Monday regarding the Kayla Allen Benefit Fund.
The Allen family lived on Shurmer Road in Strongsville.
MARIE HELLER
4:32 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012
So, so sad. I think the dispatcher who dragger her feet getting her help should be there to visit her every day. Prayers to the little Angel and her family.
MARIE HELLER
9:40 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012
don't have to explain my credentials to you or anyone else, but i find it pathetic you find the need to run my name on a comment website for an extremely fragile little angel who has been to my house many times. pathetic, perhaps your time would have been better spent praying for her. I will pray for her and you, who feel the need to run a background check a person expressing their opinion in a free country where speech is a right. idiot.
MARIE HELLER
10:12 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012
P a t h e t ic...saying more prayers
lyn
10:39 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012
"P a t h e t i c" is right, for someone to use this forum to strike out and attack that woman who was doing her job and might possibly have saved even more lives in how she was able to draw out the needed info from the caller. And here you are, trying to becoming another one grasping at her own 15 minutes of fame at the expense of other peoples tragedy (ie, YOU have a personal relationship with this family and YOU are an expert who wants to see that dispatcher with whom you obviously have a personal problem with,trashed - job jealousy?) If you really care so much for Kayla, SHUT UP and just keep her in your prayers.
kenneth malady
11:19 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012
CERTIFIED is the key word here and if you ask me this woman [ Marie ] is certified and certifiable !!!! Blame the FATHER - he was the idiot who caused all this carnage ! YOU truly don't have a clue !!!!
Cw
1:38 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012
Joe and lyn why do you have so much to say?
lyn
9:56 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012
Speaking for myself, my comments on this article are in response to Marie's need to choose an inappropriate place to lash out at the dispatcher. Every time I'm answering a comment on this article, I feel I'm being as disrespectful as she started off. This article should only have had positive comments directed towards Kayla, but some people lack the class and want to pick a fight regardless of others feelings. If you still don't get my point - its like someone ruining another person's wedding; like going to someone's house for a party and starting a brawl - that's NO CLASS. Take your gripes somewhere else - not this article.
And, as you said elsewhere "Just keep in mind curious people read comments on a subject close to them." Again, yes, I agree - the people you have a problem with commenting on here all live in Strongsville and feel deeply for what has happened to that family, one of our own.
So can we all please quit bickering HERE, and just hope and pray for Kayla's peace and comfort? This negativity HERE is counterproductive.
Cw
1:42 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012
Are you saying my prayers need to be certified ?
Cw
1:47 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012
Kenneth thank you they don't have the compassion we do
Cw
1:58 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012
Thanks this is new to me , glad to recieve nice acknowledeme
Cw
2:12 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012
james Murphy what would you do with a coffee pot and a pen against a shooter with a shotgun? God bless you
Cw
2:15 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012
James you Are sickWhy would you say that to me?
MARIE HELLER
10:15 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012
Amen!
MARIE HELLER
10:31 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012
OK children, time to grow up. Missing the point of the article. But ill keep praying for you also!
Debbie Palmer
10:38 am on Saturday, May 12, 2012
Thanks for all the comments, folks, but we're going to cut them off now. They've gone way too far off topic.
sharon denise
8:31 pm on Sunday, May 13, 2012
this is not the place for you worms to argue...have some respect for the child fight amongst yourself elsewhere
Cthomas
11:48 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
My comment is disgusted. I would never want to live in Strongsville if this is the people it produces. No thank you loosers!