A very nice gesture that the family will never forget.
Taylor Swift on Friday donated $100,000 to the family of the woman killed this week in Kansas City in shootings during the parade honoring the local Super Bowl-winning American football team. .
Two donations of $50,000 were made under the name of the super star, in a relationship with a Kansas City Chiefs player, on the GoFundMe fundraising site set up for the family of Elizabeth Lopez-Galvan.
A member of Taylor Swift's entourage then confirmed to the specialist magazine Variety that these two donations did indeed come from the singer.
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“I send you my deepest compassion and condolences on your devastating loss.
With love, Taylor Swift,” the singer wrote in a message posted with one of the donations.
More than $320,000 raised
By opening this fundraiser, the family hoped to raise at least $75,000, but the two donations from the “Bad Blood” singer quickly exceeded that goal.
This Saturday morning, the pot opened on Thursday showed $328,000 in donations (more than 300,000 euros), with more than 4,400 donors.
The shooting that erupted near the Kansas City train station as the parade drew to a close also injured 22 people, many of them children.
Three people were arrested, including two minors, according to the police, who specified that these shots were caused by a “dispute between several people”.
When the shots rang out, hundreds of thousands of people had just attended the parade of the Chiefs, crowned on Sunday at the Super Bowl, the final of the American football championship in the United States, by beating the San Francisco 49ers.
Currently in Australia for a series of concerts as part of her world tour “The Eras Tour”, Taylor Swift is the companion of Travis Kelce, star player of the Chiefs.