Back in April, 5-year-old Landen Hoffman was thrown from the third-floor balcony at the Mall of America, while innocently standing outside the Rainforest Café.
Twenty-four-year-old Emmanuel Aranda of Minneapolis was charged with attempted premeditated first-degree murder after snatching the boy away from his mother and tossing him off the 40-foot drop.
In spite of taking a plunge that could have killed him, doctors reported that Landen was actually doing much better than expected just weeks later. Medical staff chalked it up to a “miracle.”
“Doctors said they found no brain damage — not even any swelling,” Landen’s pastor, Mac Hammond, told church congregants on Easter. “No spinal damage, no nerve damage … doctors are saying it is truly a miracle.”
An MRI revealed Landen did suffer head trauma, and many broken bones, including fractures on his arm, leg, and face. He also needed to have his spleen removed.
But seven months after the tragic accident, the 5-year-old miracle boy is continuing to recover by leaps and bounds and has even started walking!
