A promising young cheerleader will be taken off life-support on Tuesday evening after she was shot a party.
Kimber Mills, 18, of Cleveland in Alabama, was one of four people who were hit with bullets close to a highway near Palmerdale on Saturday.
Her brain is too damaged for her to survive her injuries. She will receive an ‘honor walk’ at 4pm ET, her sister said.
Ashley Mills wrote on Facebook: ‘Once they declare her brain dead, she will be an organ donor.’
Kimber’s family and friends will line the corridors of the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham to pay their respects to the youngster.
They will watch as the teenager is wheeled into surgery so that her heart and lungs can be donated.
Kimber is said to be breathing with assistance and has been sedated heavily to make her comfortable.
Speaking at a vigil held Monday night, Ashley said: ‘We shouldn’t be burying our little sister.
‘It should be the other way around. It’s supposed to go from oldest to youngest not youngest first.
Kimber Mills will be taken off life support on Tuesday evening, three days after she was shot at a bonfire party near Cleveland in Alabama
Kimber was a well-liked cheerleader at Cleveland High School who aspired to become a nurse, her sister Ashley said
Ashley added: ‘She wanted to do things that I wanted to that I wasn’t able to, like be a nurse, help people and that’s exactly what she was trying to do that night… just help.’
Two men, aged 18 and 21, and a 20 year-old woman were injured in Saturday’s shooting and are expected to survive their injuries.
Steven Tyler Whitehead, 27, has been charged with attempted murder, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said.
The group were shot after a fight allegedly broke out. Kimber’s family says she did not know Whitehead.
Ashley told WBRC: ‘He was trying to hit on a girl there and give her things that she didn’t want,’ in an apparent reference to a spiked drink.
‘We hope he gets what he deserves,’ she added.
The shooting happened on a patch of private property known as ‘the pit’ where local teenagers gather to hang out and listen to music.
Dispatch recordings obtained by ABC3340 described a young woman who had been shot in the head.
Steven Tyler Whitehead, 27, has been charged with Kimber’s attempted murder. Her family says she did not know him and accused him of trying to spike another girl’s drink
A huge vigil was held for Kimber on the field of her high school on Monday evening, as family and friends prepare to say goodbye
Updates on the conditions of the other victims have not been shared.
Family friend Morgan Kaye Metz said: ‘She is giving the greatest gift of all today. Life.
‘She was a blessing and now she gets to bless others.’
A GoFundMe page initially set up to raise cash for Kimber will reportedly be also used to help the other victims of the shooting.
