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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Dozens gathered astatine High Sierra Tattoo Co. Saturday to grant the beingness of section tattoo creator Josh Cowdrey, who died successful a motorcycle clang Wednesday.
Local tattoo artists donated their clip and talents to rise wealth for Cowdrey's family.
"I conscionable privation to aftermath up and it beryllium a atrocious dream," Cowdrey’s ma Karen Cowdrey said.
She says she is inactive successful daze implicit her son's tragic death.
"It's conscionable heart-wrenching knowing that idiosyncratic made a atrocious prime and took our babe away," Cowdrey said.
Cowdrey was killed by a suspected drunk driver connected Barstow Avenue successful Clovis.
"When is it going to stop? How galore radical person to dice from radical having atrocious choices," Cowdrey said.
Clovis constabulary person already arrested 191 radical for drunk driving this year.
Cowdrey's household is devastated by his decease but encouraged by his life.
“He jumped successful with 2 feet each the time, not reasoning and conscionable jumped into everything helium did. So helium lived a escaped life," Cowdrey’s sister Megan Case said.
Cowdrey gave his person Chase Sievers a knuckle tattoo a week earlier his death.
Sievers says he’s thankful for a imperishable reminder of Cowdrey’s interaction connected his life.
"He was a bully idiosyncratic and helium had a bully heart… and helium was making jokes each the clip and stuff, and that's what I truly liked astir him," Sievers said.
Dozens joined Sievers successful permanently marking themselves with 1 of Cowdrey's designs Saturday.
They accidental Cowdrey died doing what helium loved, adventurous and free.
Cowdrey’s father, Scott Cowdrey, calls his lad his warrior. He hopes erstwhile household and friends look astatine their tattoos, they deliberation of him.
