A grieving Montgomery County community has shown an outpouring of generous support in the wake of Bradley Stone's killing spree last month.
A fund to help Stone's children and the sole survivor, a teenager, has raised more than $117,000.
The Souderton-Telford Rotary Club, radio station Word FM, and Univest Foundation partnered to establish the Stone and Flick Children Fund.
"It is especially gratifying to know that we have raised an excess of $100,000 to the benefit of these orphans," said Souderton Police Chief James Leary, who is also the president of the Souderton-Telford Rotary Club.
Police said Stone killed his ex-wife and five of her family members before taking his own life. The only survivor, 17 year-old Anthony Flick, is starting the healing process.
Leary said Flick returned to school and is staying with family.
"He's intellectually sound, he's a smart, bright kid, he's a gregarious kid, he's known to be a happy kid, so he fully understands exactly what he has lost and he has lost everything," said Leary.
"He will physically recover," said Leary. "I don't understand, I cannot believe that he will ever emotionally or psychologically recover from all of this."
Supporters are doing what they can to help organizers reach their goal of $500,000.
The public is invited to a free concert Sunday night that will serve as a fundraiser.
Concert Sundaes is hosting the free concert Sunday, January 25 at 7 p.m. at Souderton Area High School. Donations will be accepted.
"All kinds of people have been giving all across the state and region and it's pretty incredible," said Dave Baker, General Manager and Vice President of Word FM. "You can't replace a loved one but you can at least give a little bit of hope to somebody and by giving money to help these kids, this is an opportunity to do that."
"It's been a terrible tragedy but our community has really come together to rally around and bring support to these
children and really know that the community's behind them and we can help them move forward," said Kim Detwiler with Univest Foundation.
"First we'll move from tragedy to stability and then we'll move from stability to progress," Leary said.
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