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- Posted: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 05:49:17 +0000
A Georgia state trooper who went to the home of a mother and father killed in a car crash on Halloween night found only their four children there alone, dressed in their costumes and waiting for their parents to return.
Wanting to preserve their Halloween, he took the kids trick-or-treating before breaking the sad news.
Nathan Bradley, 25, said he was "lost for words" when he arrived at the house in Morgan County.
"The door hesitantly opened and there behind the locked screen door stood four children in full costume -- a 13-year-old Freddy Krueger, 10-year-old daughter of a Dracula, eight-year-old wizard and a six-year-old that appeared to be a firefighting ninja turtle," Bradley wrote on a crowdfunding page he's since launched to help the orphans out.
Asking if an adult was home, the eldest boy said the kids were waiting for their parents to return -- they'd gone out to get more face paint.
Knowing their closest family -- a grandmother -- was a seven-hour drive away, Bradley took them out for burgers and then trick-or-treating.
He and the children's grandmother broke the news to the kids the next day.
"We hoped that they would then relate the tragedy to November 1st, rather than Halloween," he wrote on his fundraising page.
It's since reached its goal of $275,000.
sad
Wanting to preserve their Halloween, he took the kids trick-or-treating before breaking the sad news.
Nathan Bradley, 25, said he was "lost for words" when he arrived at the house in Morgan County.
"The door hesitantly opened and there behind the locked screen door stood four children in full costume -- a 13-year-old Freddy Krueger, 10-year-old daughter of a Dracula, eight-year-old wizard and a six-year-old that appeared to be a firefighting ninja turtle," Bradley wrote on a crowdfunding page he's since launched to help the orphans out.
Asking if an adult was home, the eldest boy said the kids were waiting for their parents to return -- they'd gone out to get more face paint.
Knowing their closest family -- a grandmother -- was a seven-hour drive away, Bradley took them out for burgers and then trick-or-treating.
He and the children's grandmother broke the news to the kids the next day.
"We hoped that they would then relate the tragedy to November 1st, rather than Halloween," he wrote on his fundraising page.
It's since reached its goal of $275,000.
sad
