Bears surprise Highland Park's Cooper Roberts with dune buggy-like wheelchair
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Cooper Roberts of Highland Park, in the wheelchair, is presented with a new beach-suitable, dune buggy-style wheelchair by, from left, Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields, Bears GM Ryan Poles and Bears head coach Matt Eberflus, to the delight of Cooper's twin brother, Luke, and his mother, Keely. Courtesy of Chicago Bears
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Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields give Cooper Roberts of Highland Park a ride in the dune buggy-style wheelchair presented to the 8-year-old boy so he can get around on his beloved beaches. Courtesy of the Chicago Bears
Eight-year-old Cooper Roberts loves the beach, but wheelchairs were not made for sand.
Well, not most of them. On Wednesday, Cooper, the boy left paralyzed from the waist down during the mass shooting July 4 in Highland Park, was given the dune buggy version of a wheelchair. It has huge, gray wheels.
A big grin brightened Cooper's face as the Chicago Bears, working with the organization Devices 4 the Disabled, presented the boy with his gift after a Bears practice Wednesday.
"Getting to the beach, getting down into the sand, it's impossible to do in his regular wheelchair," said a delighted Keely Roberts, the boy's mother, speaking to the Bears organization. "It's absolutely impossible. It's one of those things that, as a family, we would never have been able to help Cooper with without the use of a beach wheelchair."
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