Tumbler Ridge shooting survivor Maya Gebala is released from hospital after 262 days

Maya was airlifted to BC Children's Hospital after the Feb 10 shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia, which killed eight people and injured dozens. Her father says the family was told she might not survive the night.

Maya's recovery

1. 262 days ago

   Maya is airlifted to BC Children's Hospital

2. 238 days ago

   Maya is extubated and breathes on her own

3. 179 days ago

   A prosthetic skull is placed in her fifth surgery

4. 140 days ago

   Her father wheels her off hospital grounds for the first time

Her father, David Gebala, marked the milestones of her recovery in a post on X, from her first breath after being extubated to the fifth surgery that finally held.

“There was never a day I stopped believing we would get here,” David Gebala wrote. “The road ahead is still long, but this is a milestone no one thought we would reach.”

— David Gebala, Maya's father