Consuela Pippins, 38, was attending a birthday party at Wet Willy’s bar in Buckhead on Aug. 3 when an unidentified man picked her up and dropped her on her head, paralyzing her from the neck down. Atlanta Police have not made any arrests in the incident.

Pippins’ friends and family said she was uninsured at the time of the assault and her medical bills are “astronomical.” She’s also has four children and lives in a Habitat for Humanity Home in southeast Atlanta. A press conference is planned on Sept. 19 to announce plans to raise funds for Pippins.

Read the full story at our sister publication, Buckhead Reporter.

Collin Kelley is the executive editor of Atlanta Intown, Georgia Voice, and the Rough Draft newsletter. He has been a journalist for nearly four decades and is also an award-winning poet and novelist.