Hero is recovering

"DETROIT -- Nearly three months ago Alexis Goggins filled her days playing with dolls and having tea parties when she wasn't in school. Now the 7-year-old is learning to cope with physical and occupational therapy sessions each week as she works to recover from multiple gunshot wounds after trying to defend her mother.

"Our life has been flipped upside down. But remarkably Alexis still has the same great spirit," her mother Seliethia Parker, 32, said Wednesday. "She's my angel."

On Dec. 2, Parker was held at gunpoint by former boyfriend Calvin Tillie shortly after midnight at a gas station on Seven Mile. When Tillie began shooting, Alexis threw herself between the gunman and her mother. The first-grader, who was shot six times, lost her right eye and has undergone multiple surgeries, was hailed as a hero. "