For his birthday in April 2020, a drive-by parade was held outside David Turner Jr's home. That parade included superheroes and FBI agents dressed in SWAT uniforms surrounding David's house with signs of encouragement, as well as dozens of cars honking their horns.
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"You feel so isolated right now with the pandemic, and you can't really see people," the boy's mother said. "It's just so nice to have people come out on a rainy day and do this."
As journalists who covered David's story for years, all of us at WDRB News send our condolences, our thoughts, and our prayers to his family. May we all face life with the courage and enthusiasm that David did.
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