Prayer vigil for victim and shooter that sent message of love, forgiveness…
"We fixed the one immediate problem we can fix in the field. We gave him some fluid boluses and then it's time to go to the hospital," Paul says.
Tim was taken to the Kootenai Health emergency room. His wife Cindy arrived and they had a brief moment together.
"I said 'I love you,' he said 'I love you,'" Cindy recalls. "It was so hard for him to breathe, so hard for him to speak. Three times he said to tell the children that he loves them. I said, 'Do you know what happened?' And he shook his head. And I said, 'Well, you got shot.'"
An evening news anchor explained the gravity of his injuries, saying, "Remington was shot six times, one of the bullets shattered his shoulder. Another lodged into the soft tissue of his skull, just centimeters away from killing him."
After eight hours of surgery, Tim woke up in the ICU.
"When I knew that I was alive, then I knew that God was definitely in it and there was a reason," Tim says. "And I didn't know the reason, but I knew that He was in control of it at that point."
Dr. Bob Hollman says, "You can call it a miracle, people use that term and I wouldn't argue with that. One of the fortunate things every time the guy shot him it seems he hit a big bone and that was basically his shield against injury to internal organs."
Even as his assailant Kyle Odom serves his time, Tim writes to him often, offering forgiveness and sharing the saving power of Jesus Christ.
Tim says, "God preserved me, He saved me. And it was a miracle. Absolute miracle."