Helping A Family Cope With Loss

A family in Huntsville has been hit very hard by a tragic event.  A co-worker of my sister’s has six girls.   Two of these girls are 12 year old twins who have been staying the summer with their grandmother in New Jersey.  Tuesday morning, the grandmother was violently stabbed and killed by her schizophrenic 40 year old son.   He lived in the basement of the grandmother’s home and had quit taking his medication.   The grandmother and twins had planned to leave the next day to return to Alabama where the grandmother intended to relocate with her daughter and grandchildren.

One of the twins called 911 when the grandmother was being attacked.  Once the grandmother had been killed, the man then attacked the two girls.   One of the girls was in critical condition for weeks, but she did survive.  The other girl was in grave condition, but later blinked her eyes and smiled at her mother.  Unfortunately the second girl did not survive. 

This family is going to have a large amount of travel and medical bills I used the Pay-It Forward Funds to help assist them during this tragic time.