{"id":10084,"date":"2025-12-01T18:52:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=10084"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:52:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:52:48","slug":"hundreds-of-students-line-up-to-say-goodb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=10084","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Students Line Up to Say Goodb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hundreds of students gathered to honor 18-year-old cheerleader Kimber Mills, whose final act of kindness saved multiple lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kimber was injured during a bonfire gathering near Pinson, Alabama, in what authorities called a \u201ccrossfire situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 27-year-old man, Steven Tyler Whitehead, whom no one at the event knew, was later arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kimber\u2019s condition declined, and on October 21 she was placed on life support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her family chose to fulfill her wish to be an organ donor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That day, classmates, friends, and teachers lined the hospital hallway for an honor walk as she was taken to the operating room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her sister said, \u201cHer heart was donated to a &nbsp;seven-year-old boy, and her lungs to a woman in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alternatech-net.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/download-3-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31664\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Classmate Marilu Valdez shared, \u201cIt broke my heart to know someone as bright as her\u2026 could have gone through that,\u201d urging others to \u201cLove like Kimber.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The school district remembered her as a \u201cbright, outgoing senior cheerleader.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_31663\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alternatech-net.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/download-2-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31663\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of students gathered to honor 18-year-old cheerleader Kimber Mills, whose final act of kindness saved multiple lives. Kimber was injured during a bonfire gathering near Pinson, Alabama, in what authorities called a \u201ccrossfire situation.\u201d A 27-year-old man, Steven Tyler Whitehead, whom no one at the event knew, was later arrested. Kimber\u2019s condition declined, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10086,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions\/10086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}