Family Seeks Help For 'Devoted' Mother Shot In Aurora Carjacking

Aurora IL

20 January, 2021

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AURORA, IL — An Aurora woman who was shot Saturday during a carjacking faces a long road to recovery, and her family is asking for the community's support to help her through the healing process. Kim Weibring, a 47-year-old mother of two boys, was eating in her SUV Saturday afternoon at a Wendy's restaurant when several men opened her door, put a gun to her head and forced her to the ground, Weibring's stepfather John Reincke told ABC 7 Chicago. $1M Bail For Aurora Man Accused Of Murder After Fatal Shooting One of the men then shot Weibring in the lower back before they fled the area in her red 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe, which Aurora police were still searching for Wednesday. The vehicle's license plate number is AE89203. Police said a Ford Escape that the suspects left behind in the Wendy's parking lot was stolen in a DeKalb County carjacking less than an hour before. Aurora Moves Back To Tier 2 Coronavirus Restrictions Weibring was taken to a local hospital Saturday afternoon in critical condition before being transferred to a Chicago-area trauma center, police said. She underwent the first of several surgeries earlier this week, the start of what doctors have said will be a "difficult and challenging rehabilitation process," according to a GoFundMe page set up by her brother Mike Aigner and family friend Megan Nolan. Aurora Best Buy Targeted In Early Morning Burglary: Report Weibring has no feeling from the waist down, with a bullet lodged in her spinal cord, ABC 7 Chicago reports. She is "optimistic and remains upbeat that she will walk again, but now faces spending the rest of her life in a wheelchair," Aigner and Nolan wrote. "Kim is the strongest person I know," they continued. "If anyone can overcome the chaos she was viciously and randomly thrown into it is her, but it is obvious she will need our love and assistance." Weibring is a talented artist who is "well known for her laugh and for making people laugh," family friend Sarah Ognie told Patch. "You simply feel great when you're around Kim," she said. But above all else is Weibring's "devotion" and "powerful love" for her two sons. "She has a very full life, but those boys are her world," Ognie said. Aurora Renters Could Get Help From $15M Kane County Program The GoFundMe page is seeking to raise about $347,000, which is the average annual costs for the first year of treatment and other expenses after a spinal cord injury, according to the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. It has raised more than $120,000 from about 1,700 donors in its first few days. Ognie said Weibring's family is "so grateful for the support" from people throughout the area. REGIONAL NEWS: Residents, Staff Get Coronavirus Vaccines At Bria Of GenevaMother Pleads For Help For Severely Injured 2-Month-OldAurora Man Dies After Shooting On Montgomery Bridge: PoliceAurora Democrat Votes Against Sweeping Police Reform Bill