Justin Timberlake pays unexpected visit to Santa Fe school shooting survivor

Kim Willis | USA TODAY

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Justin Timberlake made the best possible use of his tour stop in Texas: He popped by the hospital to visit victims of the Santa Fe High School shooting.

Survivor Sarah Salazar, 16, who suffered wounds from her neck to her thigh, got a bedside visit from the 37-year-old pop star on Friday afternoon.

Her mother, Sonia Lopez-Puentes, posted a photo to Facebook of the singer, suited up in a surgical gown and purple gloves, kneeling next to Sarah. She wrote that Timberlake visited and brought Sarah a gift.

The musician wore a “Santa Fe Strong” T-shirt at his Man of the Woods show on Wednesday and posted a message of encouragement to social media after visiting Clear Lake Regional Medical Center. "Texas Strong. Round two tonight, Houston,” he wrote. ”Let’s get it."

Eight students and two substitute teachers were killed May 18 when a 17-year-old student opened fire at Santa Fe High. Thirteen others were injured.