A promising young cheerleader will be taken off life-support on Tuesday evening after she was fatally-wounded by a shooting at a party.
Kimber Mills, of Cleveland in Alabama, will receive an ‘honor walk’ at 4pm ET, her sister Ashley Mills announced on Facebook.
Ashley explained: ‘Once they declare her brain dead, she will be an organ donor.’
The 18 year-old’s family and friends will line the corridors of the University of Alabama Hospital Birmingham to pay their respects to the youngster.
They will watch as Mills is wheeled into surgery so that her heart and lungs can be donated.
Mills is said to be breathing with assistance and has been sedated heavily to make her comfortable, but her family says time is running short.
Speaking at a vigil held Monday night, Ashley Mills 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, pictured, will be taken off life support on Tuesday evening, three days after she was shot at a bonfire party near Cleveland in Alabama
Mills was a well-liked cheerleader at Cleveland High School who aspired to become a nurse, her sister Ashley Mills 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.’
Mills and four others were shot at a bonfire party off a highway near Palmerdale on October 18.
Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said Steven Tyler Whitehead, 27, pulled the trigger and he has now been charged with murder.
Mills was struck by a bullet after a fight broke out. Her family says she did not know the man now charged with injuring her.
Ashley Mills 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 teens gather to hang out and listen to music.
Dispatch recordings obtained by ABC3340 describe a young woman who had been shot in the head.
Steven Tyler Whitehead, pictured, has been charged with Mills’ murder. Her family says she did not know him and accused him of trying to spike another girl’s drink when the shooting started
A huge vigil was held for Mills on the field of her high school on Monday evening, as family and friends prepare to say goodbye
Two men aged 18 and 21 and a 20 year-old woman were also injured in the shooting.
Updates on the conditions of the other victims have not been shared, but they are expected to survive their injuries.
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 Mills will now be used to help the other victims of the shooting.
