A Georgia State Trooper is asking everyone for help after the parents of four children died in a horrible crash.
Right now the children and their grandmother are packing up to head to Florida.
They took time out to speak exclusively with Channel 2’s Sophia Choi and to thank everyone, especially the trooper who's gone beyond the call of duty to help them.
Choi met up with Trooper Nathan Bradley at the Rockdale County Jail, where he was on duty Tuesday.
He was also working out of Rockdale County, when he heard about the accident and rushed to the scene.
Troopers say the parents had gone to buy more makeup for their kids on Halloween night, when they crashed on Broughton Road in Newton County.
Bradley found the children waiting at their Morgan County home just a few miles away.
"They were in their full costumes, I remember the 8-year-old -- he was an angry wizard so his face was partially red,” Bradley said.
“I figured yeah, something bad must have happened, because if nothing bad happened then all these troopers wouldn't be here,” son Justin Howard said.
The closest relative was their grandmother eight hours away in Florida.
So Bradley decided to stay with the kids until she could arrive.
“I care a lot about them and I want to watch them succeed. I don't want this tragedy to shadow the rest of their lives,” Bradley said.
Bradley and others in the community celebrated Halloween with the kids and kept the deaths of their parents from them.
“Our purpose was to preserve future holidays as far as Halloween goes. We wanted them to relate it to November first,” Bradley said.
Bradley started a GoFundMe page to help the family with funeral costs and to transport the parents bodies to Florida, where they will be buried.
They needed $7,000; they got more.
The grandmother and children plan to leave for Florida Wednesday.
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