{"id":1540451,"date":"2022-07-05T22:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T02:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540451"},"modified":"2022-07-05T22:19:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T02:19:12","slug":"over-1-million-raised-for-2-year-old-who-lost-both-parents-in-highland-park-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-1-million-raised-for-2-year-old-who-lost-both-parents-in-highland-park-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Over $1 Million Raised For 2-Year-Old Who Lost Both Parents In Highland Park Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fover-1-million-raised-for-2-year-old-who-lost-both-parents-in-highland-park-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540451&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Kevin and Irina McCarthy\u2019s lives tragically ended Monday after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shooting-sends-4th-of-july-parade-into-chaos-multiple-feared-injured-or-dead\">shooter<\/a> allegedly climbed to the rooftop of a Highland Park, Illinois, building and gunned down a crowd celebrating the July Fourth holiday. Their deaths left two-year-old Aiden orphaned.<\/p>\n<p>Aiden was separated from his parents Kevin, 37, and Irina, 35, as dozens fled the chaotic scene while gunfire rained down on them. The parents were among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/highland-park-death-toll-rises-to-7-officials-release-victims-names\">seven killed<\/a> in the shooting. Just a day after the tragedy, a GoFundMe was set up for the orphaned toddler, and within four hours, it surpassed $1 million in donations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt two years old, Aiden is left in the unthinkable position; to grow up without his parents,\u201d the GoFundMe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/irina-and-kevin-mccarthy\">page<\/a> organized by Irina Colon states. \u201cAiden will be cared for by his loving family and he will have a long road ahead to heal, find stability, and ultimately navigate life as an orphan. He is surrounded by a community of friends and extended family that will embrace him with love, and any means available to ensure he has everything he needs as he grows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Aiden was separated from his parents during the shooting, the two-year-old was taken by strangers Dana and Greg Ring, who had found him with another stranger who was in shock, CBS Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/both-parents-of-toddler-killed-in-highland-park-mass-shooting\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u200b\u200bShe was physically shaking, her whole body, which told us that \u2026 she shouldn\u2019t be having to hold, and\/or deal with a little one at the same time,\u201d Dana Ring explained.<\/p>\n<p>The couple tried to locate Aiden\u2019s parents but were unsuccessful, describing the scene as \u201ccarnage.\u201d Dana and Greg then took the unharmed child to a fire station where a police detective later picked him up and placed him in the care of his grandparents at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of publishing, Aiden\u2019s fundraiser had reached $1.3 million. The GoFundMe page says that the money will go toward helping \u201cthe caregivers who will be tasked with raising, caring for, and supporting Aiden as he and his support system embark on this unexpected journey.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin and Irina McCarthy\u2019s lives tragically ended Monday after a shooter allegedly climbed to the rooftop of a Highland Park, Illinois, building and gunned down a crowd celebrating the July Fourth holiday. Their deaths left two-year-old Aiden orphaned. Aiden was separated from his parents Kevin, 37, and Irina, 35, as dozens fled the chaotic scene &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1540466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1540466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}