HEARTBREAKING: Toddler Found Alone After Losing Both Parents To Highland Park Shooting

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The parents of a toddler found wandering alone in the aftermath of the Highland Park mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade were both killed during the massacre, The Guardian reports. A picture of two year-old Aiden McCarthy went viral in the aftermath of the attack before he was reunited with his grandparents. But it has now been revealed that the child’s parents are both dead.

Kevin McCarthy, 37, and Irina McCarthy, 35, were both named as victims of the shooter who attacked the parade in the upmarket Chicago suburb, injuring dozens as as well as killing seven people. Local television station CBS Chicago reported that a GoFundMe page had been set up to raise money for the child, Aiden McCarthy, who will now be raised by his grandparents.

“At two years old, Aiden is left in the unthinkable position; to grow up without his parents,” the page said.

The GoFundMe fundraiser for the McCarthys had raised more than $450,000 by this evening.


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  1. Turns out the child is Jewish, the son of a Russian immigrant who was an only child to her parents. Looks like the father was not Jewish so the community has to make sure that he stays with his people if and when his grandparents can no longer care for him. Additionally, there’s a great need to provide them with all the help possible so that they can raise him well, so the non Jewish side won’t have reason/justification to try to raise him themselves.

    • even more important to make sure that the Non Jewish grandparents are respected and the Jewish grandparents raise him

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