An 11-year-old girl shot in the face in Tasmania's north two months ago is out of hospital and back at her Deloraine home.
Phoenix Newitt was airlifted to the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne in the hours after she was shot in Deloraine on 29 August.
The grade five student was shot in the right side of her face at about 9:00pm as she sat in a car in Stagg Court with her mother, uncle, and four-year-old cousin.
She spent five days in an induced coma and underwent a number of surgeries to remove bullet fragments that had lodged in her brain, heart and lungs.
Her mother Sarah Newitt said the damage to her daughter's face was minimal, but the bullet broke up internally.
Doctors feared that if she survived she would be left with brain damage, but she is home and doing well.
"It's overwhelming that Phoenix is still Phoenix because that is the main thing that I was scared of — that she wasn't going to be the same little girl, but I believe that she is," Ms Newitt said.
It is understood she has a number of ongoing issues, including intermittent blurred vision.
The alleged shooter, 25-year-old Nathan Richard Campbell, will appear in court later this month charged with causing grievous bodily harm.
Police said he shot the girl from a distance of about 50 metres.
The incident occurred after an alleged physical altercation an hour earlier between his partner and Ms Newitt at a Deloraine supermarket.
