The last patient from the July 20 shooting at an Aurora theater was released Wednesday from the University of Colorado Hospital and will be transferred to a long-term care facility.

Caleb Medley, a 23-year-old aspiring comedian who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, was released in the afternoon, said Dan Weaver, hospital spokesman.

Medley, from Florence, lost an eye in the attack and suffered brain damage. For a time he had been in a medically induced coma.

His wife, Katie Medley, escaped from the massacre unscathed and five days later delivered the couple’s first child, Hugo Jackson Medley.

Locally and nationally known comedians banded together to support the Medleys who had no health insurance, starting a website and hosting benefit shows. The most recent update on the website says nearly $400,000 has been collected.

An update from Friday from Katie Medley on Facebook says that doctors said he has been stable and slowly coming around.

“He has been following commands much better, and he has been able to open his left eye,” she writes. “Still have a long ways to go, keep the Medley family in your prayers!”

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