The couple are Korean and don’t speak much English but have worked for years at their daughter’s store, police and friends said. They live in O’Fallon, Mo.

The girl had been in the store earlier that day with a friend, trying to steal hair extensions, police say. The couple kicked the girls out with a warning. They returned, and the couple called police. Officers came but released the 13-year-old girl on a formal warning for trespassing, with the couple’s approval. She later came back alone, with a revolver, and shot the couple and robbed them, police say.

The couple’s adult daughter, who owns the store, had tears in her eyes when she spoke to a reporter at the beauty supply store Tuesday. She said she had just come from the hospital where her parents are still being treated. The shooting damaged her parents’ spines and her father’s lungs, and left her father with a large hole in his back that he will have for the rest of his life, she said.

Even though they were reported to be paralyzed at first, the daughter said her parents can move to some degree. She said they will need two to three years of physical therapy to be able to walk.

“They are not doing fine,” she said emphatically.