Sandy Springs Shooting Victim Speaks

Adina Parson, continues to make progress. She was shot outside her Sandy Springs apartment in April and has said her first words since the incident, according to a WSBTV News.

A family friend told the news station that Parson said "hello" to her mother on Tuesday.

Adina is currently recovering at the Shepherd Center. Her husband, Michael Parson is being charged in the shooting. He is being held in the Fulton County Jail.

WSBTV.com previously reported that Michael Parson, a Navy veteran, was a manager at a Dunwoody Petland store and may have been secretly engaged to a former employee at the store.

Initially Michael Parson was not a suspect in the shooting, police said. As their investigation unfolded he became a suspect and fled the area. Earlier in May, he was arrested by the Texas Highway Patrol following a traffic stop.

, three in the head, in the late night hours of April 20, outside her apartment at the Residences of Morgan Falls off Roswell Road. Adina is an attorney for the Georgia Department of Public Health.