TROY, Ohio (WDTN) – Culver’s in Troy hosts a fundraiser for the family of the Troy teens who died from carbon monoxide poisoning and the 8-year-old boy who was also in the home that remains hospitalized.
The fundraiser was at the Culver’s Thursday night. 20% of all proceeds will go towards the Bishop family. The owner says they even had to extend the hours of the fundraiser because of all the community interests.
Last week the four children were found unresponsive in a home in Troy. Since then 2 sisters and one teen girl have died from CO poisoning and a 8 year old boy is in the hospital.
A close family members of the children used to work for the Culver’s and owner, operator Derek Potts say he was like extended family so they wanted to help out in any way they could.
“When we heard the news it’s like, let’s use whatever resources we have and pull together from the community. The community has been so wonderful to really support that as well,” said Potts. “So we’re using what ever support we’ve got from the community to really bring them into the restaurant.”
Some of the people that went to the fundraiser included members of 8 year old Jahari’s little league football team. A local company donated a picture of him for the team to stop by and sign.
The restaurant had a constant line outside of the door full of people wanting to show support and that’s something people that knew them say they would appreciate.
“As they’re looking down on us they would really appreciate how many people came out to support them,” said Monica Pena who knew all four of the children.
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