Six year old boy lost both parents and younger brother in Saturday's massacre in Allen, TX

[LonePirate]

Link to tweet

Peyton Yager @peytonyager

6yo William Cho is the only surviving member of his family after they visited the #AllenTexas mall Saturday.

According to a family friend, his parents (Cindy and Kyu Cho) and his 3yo little brother James were 3 of the 8 killed in the mass shooting. @FOX4

GoFundMe link

The tweet author who shared the GFM link is a Dallas area news reporter so I am going to presume it is legit for now. If anyone receives word otherwise, let me know and I will delete this post.

In the meantime, I hope that young boy has some relatives or trusted guardians in his life to care for and raise him. I don't think anyone wants him to become a ward of the state.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. So sad.

I hope this little one has other family that can take him in.

[Paladin]

2. What good are Greg Abbott's "thoughts and prayers" going to do for that little boy?

Our Governor may be a complete piece of shit, but at least he's consistent.

[AllyCat]

4. Stoopid gun humpers don't care.

All part of the price of freedom. Hell, I even had someone here on DU tell me that yesterday. It’s a blood price we sometimes have to pay for freedom. It was not a sarcastic comment either.

[JI7]

5. So fucked up

[Wingus Dingus]

6. Horrible.

Were they targeted for being Asian, you have to wonder. He also killed a woman who appears to be Indian or Pakistani.

[sarisataka]

7. I recognize that family...

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Some would subject this child to pictures of his dead family.

[Sympthsical]

20. My first thought

Kid’s going to grow up and see that - the internet is forever.

Just because random internet people wanted to make a statement that afternoon they’ll have forgotten in a month.

He won’t, though.

[wnylib]

25. +10,000

[underpants]

8. God.

[Bristlecone]

9. Just as F'ed up as it gets.

[malaise]

10. So four of the dead are non-whites

Who are the other four. We already heard that he killed a woman of Indian origin.

[uponit7771]

12. +1, my Indian friend called about this ... its news in that community but they nor I understand ..

... why there is a Hispanic white supremacist.

I'm getting those lines all wrong

[malaise]

15. Many Hispanics are white, more than a few are racists

And many are right wingers who supported military dictators and the exploitation of indigenous people and non-whites in our hemisphere. And never forget that there are pro imperialist non-white Hispanics in these movements.

[WarGamer]

16. as I'm sure you know, Malaise...

Light skinned Central and South Americans can be EXTREMELY racist towards black folks and darker skin neighbors...

I've seen it from Mexico to Brazil.

[uponit7771]

28. wow, a world I know only about from the the resorts

[uponit7771]

26. True, but the picture of the young man didn't look like he was white at all ...

... he looked like people I grew up with that wouldn't be considered white by the police (my metric as a black man).

[W_HAMILTON]

18. Because Hispanic is an ethnicity and not a race.

Hispanics can be white, black, etc.

Ted Cruz is Hispanic.

Marco Rubio is Hispanic.

[ShazzieB]

24. Exactly.

A lot of people forget that. Another well-known example: Desi Arnaz. He was Cuban (born and raised there, not Cuban American like Rubio). I don't remember anyone ever thinking of him as anything but white.

[GuppyGal]

29. LOL wut ??? nt

[pnwmom]

19. Hispanics are as varied in race as people in the United States.

The term refers to a common language and culture, not race.

(One of the recently convicted Proud Boys is Enrique Tarrio -- and he's Afrocuban. And yet a white supremacist.)

[uponit7771]

27. +1,

[Cobalt Violet]

13. not sure what race the 4th and 2nd grade sisters he killed are.

Their mother is in critical condition.

[malaise]

14. Second and Fourth grade - this is too sad

[JI7]

30. Daniela and Sofia Mendoza

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[uponit7771]

11. omg

[pnwmom]

17. So, among the eight dead, at least half were people of color.

The three Korean American members of this family, and the woman engineer from India.

[honest.abe]

21. This poor child. Just horrific.

[japple]

22. This is why we need more guns!!!!! Thoughts and prayers aren't working.

In all seriousness, what it is going to take for these gunfuckers to wake up? Sadly, the only thing that will make them give up their toys is for death to happen to them or their family.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

23. sad. Family just out for a nice day at the mall

[BSdetect]

31. The pain and trauma of the survivors is never fully accounted for. Nor can it be.

[live love laugh]

32. I'm speechless.