Friends raise money for Clovis veteran and tattoo artist killed in crash

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Friends and household gathered astatine High Sierra Tattoo Company successful Clovis connected Saturday day to grant and enactment seasoned and tattoo creator 37-year-old Josh Cowdrey.

He was progressive successful a deadly clang portion connected his motorcycle a small earlier 11 connected Wednesday morning. Authorities said it happened adjacent Barstow and Stanford successful Clovis.

Saturday's events honoring Cowdrey was an affectional time for his family.

"I'm truthful atrocious this happened to you, you didn't merit it," said his sister, Megan Case.

Officers accidental 57-year-old Tamera Pittman was down the instrumentality of a reddish SUV that made a near turn, colliding with Cowdrey.

Pitman was taken into custody.

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Cowdrey's sister said helium was connected his mode to work. It was his archetypal time astatine a caller tattoo shop.

"His nephew and his dada and everybody helped him enactment each his worldly implicit there. He was conscionable truthful excited to commencement different travel astatine a caller tattoo shop," said Case.

A small little than six miles from High Sierra Tattoo Company successful Clovis, Ambitious Ink successful Fresno was besides hosting an lawsuit to grant the precocious tattoo creator connected Saturday.

"We mislaid a champion friend, each azygous 1 of us," said person Dustie Whitson.

Cowdrey worked astatine Ambitious Ink for astir 2 years. The artists astatine the tattoo store accidental helium had the champion consciousness of wit and made lasting impressions connected everyone helium met.

"Every tattoo I've done, adjacent if it was a atrocious one, he'd pat maine connected the backmost and archer me, 'Good job, Beaver. Good occupation man, you marque maine proud'. It's kinda hard origin erstwhile you archer idiosyncratic that you marque them proud, it means a batch to radical who don't get told that often," said person Jared "Beaver" Lozano.

Both friends and household said Pittman not lone ended a beingness excessively soon but ripped an important idiosyncratic from each of their lives.

"We'll ne'er get my member back. And you're conscionable disgusting that you tin portion and drive," said Case.

A donation leafage has been acceptable up to assistance the household during this heartbreaking time, click here for much information.

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