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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - After the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Anthony Calderon connected Thanksgiving Day, the nutrient vendors who enactment alongside Anthony's parent rallied astir her implicit the weekend.
The vendors met successful Fresno connected Saturday to acceptable up an impromptu market, with each their profits going to Calderon's family. Rockin' Funnel Cakes proprietor Jose Arcos describes Anthony Calderon's parent Stephanie arsenic a bully friend, and erstwhile helium heard astir the tragic shooting helium was successful shock.
"No words tin picture this," Arcos said. "We couldn't truly judge the concern astatine hand, [it's] thing cipher wants to spell through."
Arcos says that erstwhile helium archetypal started selling his funnel cakes astatine farmer's markets, helium thought the situation alongside different vendors would beryllium competitory and cutthroat - but soon recovered it was the nonstop opposite.
"As we, enactment our ft successful the doorway and gotten deeper into the business, we've seen that this is simply a family," Arcos said. "We assistance retired each other. Good times and atrocious times. We each unrecorded done it."
David Galaviz owns Flauta Kings with his spouse is liable for organizing the event. Galaviz says he's known Calderon's household since helium was 18 years old.
"I benignant of got to cognize that full broadside of the household erstwhile I was younger," Galaviz said. "When I recovered retired this happened, my bosom conscionable went retired to them."
Galaviz says helium could not ideate a satellite wherever the vendor household did not travel retired to enactment each another.
"Everyone successful the markets, we're similar that man," Galaviz said. "If we tin lend a manus we volition help, if we're missing anything, plates, napkins, oregon thing similar that."
It was a no-brainer then, successful Galaviz's mind, that helium and different vendors connection their support.
"It's a shame that this is what the household is going through," Galaviz said. "I'm conscionable truthful fortunate to person met him and to cognize him personality, the mode he's touched truthful galore hearts of everyone that's present for him today."
Galaviz says Anthony Calderon filled the country with his vigor and made everyone smile. He says the interaction of his nonaccomplishment tin beryllium seen successful the faces of everyone who came retired successful support.
That time the Flauta Kings had truthful galore customers that they were forced repeatedly to instrumentality breaks and inquire radical to hold truthful the cooks could support up with demand. Galaviz says helium owes his community, including Calderon's family, for the feeling of immense pridefulness and joyousness helium feels.
"I ne'er thought we'd person this overmuch of an interaction connected the community," Galaviz said. "It warms my bosom and we wouldn't beryllium anyplace other but present helping them out."
Galaviz says helium volition proceed to fundraise successful River Park connected Tuesdays and successful Tower District connected Thursdays, and urges anyone escaped to travel by and donate determination arsenic well.
"Tuesday, we'll beryllium backmost successful the market. If anyone other wants to travel retired and donate thing similar anyone, delight travel by," Galaviz said.
