A young child is orphaned following both parents are killed in a shooting in Highland Park, Illinois.
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Kevin McCarthy and Irina McCarthy are among the seven victims who perished in the July 4 shootings according to CBS.
Their two-year-old son, Aiden, was taken away from his parents during the shootings.
It was a stranger who picked up the child to try to save him from this chaos.
“His whole body was shaking,” said a couple who offered to help the stranger with the little one during the shooting.
A policeman came to pick up the child later in the day to hand him over to his grandparents.
The child was not injured.
A crowdfunding campaign raised over $950,000 to help young Aiden.
