Gambrills Fundraiser To Help Crofton Native, Las Vegas Shooting Victim

ODENTON, MD — Family friends and many others in the Odenton-Gambrills area are rallying around the family of Tina Frost, who was critically wounded in the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas. An Odenton restaurant held a fundraiser Thursday for Frost, 27, a 2008 graduate of Arundel High School, according to media reports.

She remains in a coma in a Las Vegas hospital, but family members say that she's making progress every day. A Crofton native, Frost was shot in the head as she attended the country music concert. Her boyfriend carried her to the truck of a stranger, who rushed her to a hospital, according to media reports.

The day after the shooting, doctors removed her right eye where the bullet was lodged and removed a piece of bone from her forehead to allow swelling.

The Hideaway restaurant in Odenton hosted the fundraiser Thursday, with all profits going to the Frost family, according to media reports. A GoFundMe page set up by a family friend had raised more than $522,000 as of Friday, and Tina's friends in the area are selling "#TinaTough" T-shirts and bracelets to help her family.

Tina's father, Rich Frost, stopped by the Hideaway to thank patrons Thursday before flying back to Las Vegas to be at his daughter's bedside. "She might wake up tonight. She might wake up anytime, and I want to be there," he told WBAL-TV in Baltimore.

Another fundraiser for the Frost family will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Molloy's Irish Pub in Gambrills. The bar and restaurant said on its Facebook page that it will host a 50/50 raffle, and #TinaStrong T-shirts will be on sale.

All funds will go to the family's GoFundMe page, set up to "cover all expenses related to this tragic event such as traveling, food, hotels, missed work, and caring for Tina," the page says. Tina Frost had traveled to the country music festival from San Diego, where she works for an accounting firm.

Tina's mother, Mary Watson Moreland, said on Facebook that she is going through physical therapy sessions, in which she sits on her bed and moves her legs back and forth. Tina has been hooked to a ventilator to help her breathe; as part of her therapy, doctors have paused the ventilator to allow her to practice breathing on her own with the aid of the CPAP machine, her mother said.

Tina and the family have "had some wins" in the last few days, her mother said. "Just like we tell Tina when we're cheerleading her to keep breathing - slow and steady wins the race."

Frost has also had some high-profile visitors this week, the Capital Gazette reported. On Tuesday, the actor who plays the character of Deacon on her favorite TV show, "Nashville," stopped by to sing her a few songs. And on Wednesday, she was visited by astronaut Mark Kelly, whose wife, U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, was wounded by a gunman in 2011.

Photo of Mary Watson Moreland and her daughter, Tina Frost, courtesy of GoFundMe