Philadelphia is the city where Charles Barkley started his NBA career and he still has ties to the community. Barkley loves the city so much he’s offering to help in a very devastating tragedy.
via ProBasketballTalk:
That city has been rocked by the tragic death of three innocent children, ages 7 to 15, who were selling fruit at a stand as a church fundraiser when they were run over by a car that had been carjacked not long before. It’s a sickening event that has left their mother critically wounded as well.
Barkley has stepped up and offered to pay for the funerals of the children, reports NBCPhiladelphia.com:
NBA legend and former Philadelphia 76er Charles Barkley has offered to pay for the funerals of three siblings killed after a carjacking went awry in the city last week, according to District Attorney Seth Williams.
Ten-year-old Thomas Reed, his 15-year-old sister Keiearra Williams and their 7-year-old brother Terrence Moore were mowed down by a SUV and ki
lled on a street corner in the Tioga section of the city Friday while selling fruit.
