A benefit fund has been set up at Key Bank in Friday Harbor to help Mary Wutzl offset expenses incurred while caring for her grandson, David Oliver Hursh.

Hursh, who attended Friday Harbor High School, was shot in the early morning hours of Jan. 3, in the Anacortes area. He was found on the Swinomish Reservation, on Hope Island, by tribal police shortly before 4:30 a.m.

The 27-year-old had been shot in the stomach area.

Since the shooting, Hursh has been recuperating at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Though he survived what a family friend, Diana Greenwood, describes as a near-fatal gunshot wound, Hursh remains paralyzed from the waist down.

A 28-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the shooting, according to the Skagit Valley Herald.

Hursh is the grandson of San Juan Island’s Mary Wutzl and her former husband, Hank Wutzl, who passed away several years ago. Mary Wutzl has been traveling to Harborview and staying in the Seattle area on occasion to help care for and to support her grandson.

Donations can be made at Key Bank, call 378-2111 for info.