From an AP story by Mike Householder headlined “Michigan school shooting survivor heals with surgery, a trusted horse, and a chance to tell her story”

For Kylie Ossege, the 19-year-old college student who survived two deadly mass school shootings in Michigan — one as a senior at Oxford High School in 2021 and another 14 months later as a freshman at Michigan State University — Blaze stands as a source of comfort in a world otherwise shattered by bullets.

Ossege runs a brush along Blaze’s broad forehead, then gives him a kiss between the eyes.