Tina Frost from Crofton, Maryland, was shot in the face when Stephen Paddock opened fire on tens of thousands of concertgoers in Las Vegas. Frost, who underwent surgery and lost her right eye, took her first steps since the shooting on Friday and was brought back to her home state after being taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital over the weekend.
Tina Frost poses for a photo with her mother, Mary Watson Moreland. Frost was shot in the face and lost her right eye in the mass shooting in Las Vegas.
(Courtesy Frost family)
Courtesy Frost family
In this Monday, Oct. 9, 2017 file photo, people pray at a makeshift memorial for victims of a mass shooting in Las Vegas. Gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire Sunday, Oct. 1 from a room at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino, on an outdoor country music concert killing dozens and injuring hundreds. A revised chronology given by investigators for the Las Vegas massacre is intensifying pressure for police to explain how quickly they responded to what would become the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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AP Photo/John Locher, File
People pause at a memorial set up for victims of a mass shooting in Las Vegas, on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017. A gunman opened fire on an outdoor music concert on Sunday. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, with dozens of people killed and hundreds injured, some by gunfire, some during the chaotic escape.
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AP Photo/Gregory Bull
Agents from the FBI continue to process evidence at the scene of a mass shooting on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, in Las Vegas. Stephen Paddock opened fire on an outdoor music concert on Sunday killing dozens and injuring hundreds.
(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
AP Photo/Gregory Bull
Flags are lowered to half-staff at the foot of the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington as the sun rises on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, in honor of the victims killed in the Las Vegas shooting. In the background is the U.S. Capitol dome.
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AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
Kim Bartlett, left, comforts Cassandra Johnson before a funeral for their co-worker Erick Silva, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, in Las Vegas. Silva was working as a security guard when he was killed during a mass shooting Oct. 1, in Las Vegas.
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AP Photo/John Locher
Melissa Gerber, left, Nancy Hardy, center, and Sandra Serralde, all of Las Vegas, embrace as they look on crosses in honor of those killed in the mass shooting Friday, Oct. 6, 2017, in Las Vegas. A gunman opened fire on an outdoor music concert on Sunday killing dozens and injuring hundreds.
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AP Photo/Gregory Bull
Kelsey Paris becomes emotional as she embraces her grandfather and Sonny Melton’s father, James Warren Melton, Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, during Sonny’s visitation at Big Sandy High School in Big Sandy, Tenn. Sonny was killed during a mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas.
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Morgan Timms/The Jackson Sun via AP
Students from University of Nevada Las Vegas hold a vigil Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas. A gunman on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino hotel rained automatic weapons fire down on the crowd of over 22,000 at an outdoor country music festival Sunday.
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AP Photo/Gregory Bull
A woman sits on a curb at the scene of a shooting outside of a music festival along the Las Vegas Strip, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas. Multiple victims were being transported to hospitals after a shooting late Sunday at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.
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WASHINGTON — A woman from Crofton, Maryland, who was seriously injured in the Las Vegas massacre, is back in Maryland after being taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital over the weekend.
Tina Frost was flown from a Vegas hospital Sunday to Baltimore and was admitted to Johns Hopkins in the evening hours, Sunrise Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas told WTOP.
Family members said the 27-year-old made a lot of progress in recent days.
“There could be some impairment in the future, but once she starts breathing better, I think she’s going to be able to talk,” Frost’s Las Vegas neurosurgeon Dr. Keith Blum told The Capital Gazette. “If we kept her in Vegas for four or five more days, she might have been able to walk out of the hospital.”
Frost was shot in the head Oct. 1 while attending the Route 91 Harvest festival with her boyfriend.
Hundreds were injured and 58 were killed in the massacre, and the bullet that hit Frost shattered part of her skull.
Blum was forced to remove Frosts’s right eye.
“There’s so many people that need help, and she’s certainly one of them, but she’s one of the fortunate ones,” Blum told The Capital Gazette. “She’s tough, and I‘m hoping for continued improvement.”
Frost made significant strides last week, according to her mother who wrote updates on a GoFundMe page set up to help with Frost’s medical bills.
“She opens her left eye and looks all around the room at us and also took her first steps today with the assistance of the nurses,” Frost’s mother, Mary Watson Moreland, wrote on Friday. “She also breathed on her own for a full 6 hours! We are so proud of our Tina, and everyone is amazed at every single movement she makes.”
The GoFundMe page has generated more than $550,000, and others in Maryland have raised thousands more to support Frost’s recovery.
Frost graduated from Arundel High School in 2008. She had been working in California as an accountant.
