Videos show 6 months of recovery: How Maya Gebala overcame the odds

Once the police arrived, a close friend to Maya named “Abbison,” according to her account, quickly told one of the officers to take Maya away, as he had seen her finger twitch and knew she was still alive. The officer, according to Edmonds, promptly put Maya in the back of his police cruiser and drove her to the hospital, likely saving her life.