(NEW YORK) — Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest for the 16th time on Tuesday, adding to his record for the most career championships of any eater in the contest’s roughly 50-year history.
Chestnut, who goes by the nickname “Jaws,” ate 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes at the annual July 4th event on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York.
Torrential rain and lightning delayed the start of the competition by two hours but did not alter the expected outcome for Chestnut, who entered the contest a heavy favorite.
The victory marked eight consecutive wins for Vallejo, California-native Chestnut. He first entered the contest in 2005 and has not suffered a defeat since 2015.
The runner up Geoffrey Esper, of Oxford, Massachusetts, ate 49 hot dogs.
While dominant, the performance by Chestnut fell 14 hot dogs short of his record set in 2021. He has eaten more than 70 hot dogs and buns in six contests, data collected by ESPN showed.
Due to the storm, contest officials told the participants earlier on Tuesday that the event had been canceled, Chestnut said in an interview with ESPN after the event.
“What a rollercoaster emotionally,” said Chestnut. “I wasn’t even sure if we were going to eat today.”
“I’m just happy,” he added. “It’s 4th of July and I got to eat some hot dogs.”
In the women’s division, Miki Sudo ate 39.5 hot dogs en route to her ninth consecutive championship. The second-place finisher, Mayoi Ebihara, ate 33.5 hot dogs.
Sudo, of Port Richey, Florida, said the stiff challenge from Ebihara distracted her.
“The first couple minutes, I found myself watching her, which I never want to do. I never want to be distracted by the other competitors,” Sudo said after the event, the Associated Press reported.
“Watching her, I fumbled my hands. I got stuck with a big burp early on but was able to correct,” Sudo added.
(ILLINOIS) — It was a somber Fourth of July for the residents of Highland Park, Illinois, as they gathered to mark one year since the mass shooting that took the lives of seven revelers and wounded dozens of others.
Hundreds of people joined dignitaries, including U.S. senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin and Gov. JB Pritzker, outside city hall on Tuesday to mark a moment of silence at 10:14 a.m., the time when the mass shooting occurred.
They then marched north on a memorial walk that organizers said was done not only to honor the victims but reclaim the day and the parade from the tragedy.
“I am so proud of how our community has supported one another during these 12 months and today,” Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering said during the service.
A gunman armed with a rifle opened fire during last year’s parade, striking dozens of paradegoers and marchers. Investigators said 83 shots were fired during the mass shooting.
Seven people were killed during the incident: Katherine Goldstein, 64, Stephen Straus, 88, Jacki Sundheim, 63, Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, 78, Eduardo Uvaldo, 69, and Irina McCarthy, 35, and her husband Kevin McCarthy, 37. During the parade, the McCarthy’s were with their 2-year-old son, Aiden, and were separated during the incident.
The toddler survived.
Forty-eight other people were wounded from either gunshots or shrapnel.
One of those victims was honored Monday night during the Cubs-Brewers game in Milwaukee.
Cooper Roberts, 9, who was paralyzed from the waist down, threw out the first pitch of the game to his favorite player Christian Yelich.
“Having Cooper here, alongside his family, represents a milestone in this long path to recovery for the entire community,” Rick Schlesinger, the Brewers’ president of business operations, said in a statement.
After an hours-long manhunt, police caught and arrested the suspect, Robert Crimo III, 22. The alleged gunman was charged with 117 criminal counts including 21 counts of first-degree murder, three counts for each victim, as well as 48 counts of attempted murder.
The suspect has pleaded not guilty and awaiting trial.
He faces life in prison without parole if convicted on his charges.
Investigators said the suspect legally purchased the weapon used in the shooting and other firearms found in his car during his arrest.
In December, the suspect’s father, Robert Crimo Jr., was charged by investigators with seven counts of reckless conduct causing great bodily harm. The suspect’s father allegedly signed the Firearm Owner’s Identification card for his son to apply for gun ownership.
The alleged gunman was 19 at the time and too young to get a FOID card on his own.
The suspect’s father pleaded not guilty to his charges.
Rotering and other community leaders pushed for an end to gun violence.
“As we remember each of the victims of the shooting let us commit to making meaningful change,” she said.
(ILLINOIS) — It was a somber Fourth of July for the residents of Highland Park, Illinois, as they gathered to mark one year since the mass shooting that took the lives of seven revelers and wounded dozens of others.
Hundreds of people joined dignitaries, including U.S. senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin and Gov. JB Pritzker, outside city hall on Tuesday to mark a moment of silence at 10:14 a.m., the time when the mass shooting occurred.
They then marched north on a memorial walk that organizers said was done not only to honor the victims but reclaim the day and the parade from the tragedy.
“I am so proud of how our community has supported one another during these 12 months and today,” Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering said during the service.
A gunman armed with a rifle opened fire during last year’s parade, striking dozens of paradegoers and marchers. Investigators said 83 shots were fired during the mass shooting.
Seven people were killed during the incident: Katherine Goldstein, 64, Stephen Straus, 88, Jacki Sundheim, 63, Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, 78, Eduardo Uvaldo, 69, and Irina McCarthy, 35, and her husband Kevin McCarthy, 37. During the parade, the McCarthy’s were with their 2-year-old son, Aiden, and were separated during the incident.
The toddler survived.
Forty-eight other people were wounded from either gunshots or shrapnel.
One of those victims was honored Monday night during the Cubs-Brewers game in Milwaukee.
Cooper Roberts, 9, who was paralyzed from the waist down, threw out the first pitch of the game to his favorite player Christian Yelich.
“Having Cooper here, alongside his family, represents a milestone in this long path to recovery for the entire community,” Rick Schlesinger, the Brewers’ president of business operations, said in a statement.
After an hours-long manhunt, police caught and arrested the suspect, Robert Crimo III, 22. The alleged gunman was charged with 117 criminal counts including 21 counts of first-degree murder, three counts for each victim, as well as 48 counts of attempted murder.
The suspect has pleaded not guilty and awaiting trial.
He faces life in prison without parole if convicted on his charges.
Investigators said the suspect legally purchased the weapon used in the shooting and other firearms found in his car during his arrest.
In December, the suspect’s father, Robert Crimo Jr., was charged by investigators with seven counts of reckless conduct causing great bodily harm. The suspect’s father allegedly signed the Firearm Owner’s Identification card for his son to apply for gun ownership.
The alleged gunman was 19 at the time and too young to get a FOID card on his own.
The suspect’s father pleaded not guilty to his charges.
Rotering and other community leaders pushed for an end to gun violence.
“As we remember each of the victims of the shooting let us commit to making meaningful change,” she said.
(NORTH CAROLINA) — When Dorian Bolden began expanding his coffee shop, Beyu Caffe, in Durham, North Carolina, he says the most difficult part was securing funding as a Black business owner.
“I recognize how we were not able to get funding the way I saw, you know, my white counterparts getting funding,” Bolden told ABC News.
Bolden is far from the only Black entrepreneur to face such a barrier. Black-owned businesses were about half as likely as white-owned businesses to receive all or most of the financing they requested, according to a 2022 Federal Reserve report.
The struggle to find capital isn’t new. After the end of slavery, Black Americans were largely shut out of American banks. Between 1865 and 1934, minority depositories, also known as Black-owned banks and credit unions, began to surface across the country as a result.
The Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, would become home to what was known as Black Wall Street, but in 1921 it was burned to the ground by white supremacists in a violent race massacre.
Historic downtown Durham, where Bolden set up shop in 2009, acquired a “national reputation for entrepreneurship” of Black-owned business in the early 1900s, reads a sign in the area. Founded in 1907, Mechanics and Farms Bank, or M&F Bank, was among those businesses.
M&F Bank is now the second-oldest minority depository in the country. Bolden said he worked with the bank to secure funding for Beyu’s expansion, adding two new locations at Raleigh Durham Airport.
“Recognizing the importance of having support from a Black institution, it does matter,” Bolden said.
Obtaining a mortgage loan is another obstacle faced by Black Americans seeking to own their own home and build wealth for future generations.
For Debbie Jones, a resident of Pearl, Mississippi, it was a dream she shared with her late mom. But she began to question if her dream would ever become a reality after she says she was denied a home loan from a well-known mortgage company.
“But that particular loan company stated that they denied me because I didn’t have the income, and I knew I had the income,” Jones said.
Jones ended up going to Hope Credit Union, a Black-owned depository in Mississippi. She said the institution used the same criteria as the first mortgage company she tried, yet she was instantly approved.
“If your annual income in your household of $150,000 and you’re Black, you’re more likely to be turned away for a mortgage loan than if you’re white with a $30 to $40,000 income. So there are disparities, systemic discrimination in the financial system,” Bill Bynum, Hope Credit Union CEO and co-founder, told ABC News.
While minority depositories are working to close the racial gap, the recent bank failures of Silicon Valley Bank, First Republic Bank and Signature Bank have raised concerns over the health of the nation’s banking system. New research suggests that almost 190 U.S. banks, including community and minority depositories, could face a similar fate if just half of their depositors took their money out, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper.
Bynum said that while Hope Credit Union hasn’t had a run on deposits, they are having “conversations with some of [their] depositors who are obviously nervous.” M&F Bank CEO James Sills said that most community banks are largely safe and don’t have risky business models.
But the same “perception of risk” that impedes Black entrepreneurs and prospective home buyers also applies to Black-owned institutions themselves, Bynum said.
It’s a concern echoed by Nicole Elam, president of the National Bankers Association, a trade group advocating for minority depositories.
“We are all too familiar with systemic racism and how it’s impacted not just policies, but how it’s impacted people’s perceptions and people’s psychology,” Elam told ABC News.
Beyond the perception of risk, the challenges for minority depositions to build and sustain capital continue to mount, but there has been some relief.
Congress is investing $12 billion into minority depositories through the Emergency Capital Investment Program. This month, the Economic Opportunity Coalition pulled together $1 billion in private sector funding. In addition to that funding, Elam says she would encourage federal, state and local governments to make deposits in Black and minority banks.
For Bolden, securing funding has allowed him to help build community.
“The fact that we have team members who started as a host and now they’re, you know, senior leaders and second houses they purchase, having a salary. Being able to see people grow and develop and have a financial future, that’s community,” Bolden said.
And out of strong communities, future generations get a shot at building wealth.
“[Buying a home] was a dream come true. It was wonderful. It’s something, a legacy. Something that I can leave my children,” Jones said, adding that her mom was able to enjoy the home for five months before she passed.
“I know she’s my angel now, and she’s watching over me,” Jones said.
(PHILADELPHIA) — A gunman clad in a bulletproof vest and carrying multiple rounds of ammunition opened fire in Philadelphia late Monday, killing at least five people and wounding two children, authorities said.
Two people have since been taken into custody: a 40-year-old unnamed man who is alleged to be the suspected shooter, and another unidentified person who investigators believe picked up a firearm and started shooting at the suspect, according to Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw.
“Officers responded quickly and showed bravery and courage,” Outlaw told reporters during a late-night press conference. “Their actions prevented potentially more victims.”
The Philadelphia Police Department initially received reports of gunfire near Chester Street in the city’s Kingsessing neighborhood at around 8:56 p.m. ET. Gunshots were heard in several areas near the first location during the shooting, police said.
Officers responded to the area behind Chester Street and found multiple gunshot victims, who have not yet been identified, according to police.
Of the five deceased victims, at least four are male and three of them are between the ages of 20 and 59 years old, police said.
The two wounded victims were hospitalized in stable condition. One is a 2-year-old boy and the other a 13-year-old boy, according to police.
After arriving on the scene, officers located the suspect and pursued him on foot. The man was ultimately apprehended at a rear alley of Frazier Street, police said.
The suspect was wearing a bulletproof vest and had an AR-style rifle, a handgun, multiple magazines and a police scanner, according to police. Another rifle was discovered in the alleyway and is believed to be the gun that was allegedly used by the second person apprehended, who police said had been firing at the suspect.
Police said the suspect was firing randomly and that there was no known connection between him and his victims. The deadly shooting and a potential motive remains under investigation.
Investigators have been canvassing the area for witnesses and surveillance footage.
(FORT WORTH, Texas) — At least three people have been killed and eight more injured in a late-night shooting in Fort Worth, Texas Monday, police have confirmed.
West Division officers from the Ft. Worth Police Department were dispatched to the 3400 block of Horne Street in the western part of the city in reference to a report about a shooting, authorities said.
“Upon arrival officers located multiple shooting victims in a parking lot,” the Ft. Worth Police Department said in a statement obtained by ABC News following the incident. “Several shooting victims were transported by private vehicles to area hospitals for medical treatment and several victims were transported by ambulance to area hospitals.”
In total, three people were killed with one of the victims being pronounced dead at the scene of the crime and the other two passing away shortly after the shooting. Eight others were shot and have been taken to local area hospitals. Their conditions are currently unknown.
It is believed that 10 of the victims who were shot were adults and the last victim was a juvenile, though Ft. Worth authorities did not confirm the ages of any of the victims who were killed or injured.
If anyone has information in regards to the shooting they are asked to contact the Ft. Worth Police Department Homicide Unit at 817-392-4330.
The Ft. Worth Police Department are also asking anyone who may have personal videos during the time of the shooting or events leading up to the shooting to contact police immediately.
(PHILADELPHIA) — Five people were killed and two others were injured following a mass shooting in Philadelphia late Monday, police said.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle M. Outlaw said two people were in custody: a 40-year-old man who is believed to be the suspected shooter, and a second person who authorities believe picked up a firearm and started shooting at the suspect. The suspect was wearing a bulletproof vest and had multiple magazines, and was firing randomly.
“Officers responded quickly and showed bravery and courage,” Outlaw told reporters during a press conference. “Their actions prevented potentially more victims.”
Police received reports of gunfire near Chester Street in Philadelphia’s Kingsessing neighborhood at around 8:56 p.m. ET. Officers responded to the scene and found the gunshot victims, who have not yet been identified, according to police.
Of the five deceased victims, at least four are male and three of them are between the ages of 20 and 59 years old, police said.
The two wounded victims were hospitalized in stable condition. One is a 2-year-old boy and the other a 13-year-old boy, according to police.
Gunshots were heard in several areas near the first location during the shooting, police said.
After arriving on the scene, officers located the suspect and pursued him on foot, according to police. The suspect was apprehended at the rear alley of 1600 Frazier Street, and allegedly had an AR-style rifle and handgun, as well as a police scanner. Another rifle was discovered in the alleyway and is believed to be one allegedly used by the second man, who police said had been firing at the suspect.
Police said they’re still trying to determine the motive for the shooting, and no connection between the victims and the suspect has been identified yet.
Police began canvassing the area for witnesses and camera footage following the shooting.
(WICHITA, Kan.) — Eight people were shot and two were trampled when a gunfight involving multiple patrons erupted early Sunday inside a Wichita, Kansas, nightclub, sparking a chaotic stampede for the exit door, according to police.
Among those shot, two are in critical condition, Wichita Police Department Officer Juan Rebolledo told ABC News.
At least four guns were fired during the wild shootout that erupted at 12:58 a.m. inside the City Nightz nightclub in the Old Town section of Wichita, Lt. Aaron Moses, executive officer of the Wichita Police Department, said at a news conference on Sunday.
Moses said an individual suspected of being one of the gunmen was taken into custody and investigators are working to identify others involved in the shooting. On Monday, police identified the suspected gunman as 31-year-old Brandon Young of Florissant, Missouri.
Young was arrested on two counts of aggravated battery stemming from the nightclub shooting, police said.
More arrests are expected, according to police.
“Our investigation has shown us that at least four firearms were discharged inside the establishment during this incident,” Moses said.
The shooting came despite an increased police presence in the Old Town area due to previous problems, including a shooting in May that killed a 19-year-old woman, officials said.
Officers were on patrol outside City Nightz when “they heard a disturbance and screams from inside the business and then a large number of people exited the business,” Moses said.
“Through that chaos … we ended up identifying, at this point, seven shooting victims and two traumatic injury victims,” Moses said. “We believe all of the injuries occurred inside the business.”
He said the two people who suffered traumatic injuries, a 30-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man, were trampled in the mass scramble to escape the gunfire.
He said a motive for the shooting is under investigation.
At least four guns were seized from inside the nightclub and police were analyzing them to determine if any of them were used in the shooting, Moses said.
He said the shooting victims included two women and five men ranging in age from 21 to 34.
Five of the victims were taken to hospitals by ambulance, while the others showed up at emergency rooms on their own. One of the people injured was in critical condition, while the others are expected to survive non-life-threatening injuries, Moses said.
“As the mayor of the city of Wichita, we have to take actions to push back against this increase in gun violence that we have been seeing,” Mayor Brandon Whipple said at a news conference Sunday. “We have to come together as a community and talk with our young people, in particular, that resorting to gun violence is not a way to resolve any of the problems or issues.”
Witchita Police Chief Joe Sullivan said he was disturbed to learn so many guns were either used or seized inside the nightclub.
“There’s going to be an extensive investigation to find out how firearms got into this club and who’s responsible for bringing them in there,” Sullivan said.
Detective Chris Merceau of the Wichita Police Department said at Sunday’s news conference that police have responded to 12 incidents associated with City Nightz in the past year, including investigating aggravated battery cases and a May 21 drive-by shooting.
Owners of City Nightz could not be reached for comment. A phone message left at the club was not immediately returned.
Merceau said the past problems at the nightclub prompted an investigation by the police department’s Special Investigations Bureau. He said officers met with the club owners on May 25 to discuss security concerns.
“We discussed the importance of wanding people using metal detectors, having working video cameras, maintaining the parking lot and other best practices,” Merceau said. “Whether or not those practices and recommendations were followed here will be determined by this investigation.”
(GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) — One woman has died and nine other have been injured after a firework exploded at a home late Monday night, police say.
The explosion happened at a home in Park Township, Michigan, near the intersection of Main Street and N. 160th Avenue, at approximately 11 p.m., according to ABC News’ Grand Rapids affiliate station WZZM-TV.
It is unclear if the explosion was caused by a manufacturing fault or by user error but a lieutenant from the Ottowa County Sheriff’s Office told WZZM at the scene that a 43-year-old woman had died in the accident in Holland, Michigan, which is located some 30 miles west of Grand Rapids and nestled on the east side of Lake Michigan.
Nine others were hurt in the explosion and taken to hospital with the conditions of the victims ranging from minor to critical, the Ottowa County Sheriff’s Office told WZZM.
Several nearby homes and vehicles were also damaged in the blast, according to WZZM.
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(HIGHLAND PARK, Ill.) — A doting grandfather who immigrated from Mexico to give his family a better life and two parents on a fun outing with their toddler were among the seven people shot and killed last year at a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois.
A 21-year-old gunman allegedly carried out the mass shooting in the leafy suburban Chicago town that, according to FBI statistics, hadn’t had a murder in more than 20 years.
Five of the victims who were randomly shot died at the scene of the shooting, while one perished at a hospital, according to officials. One day after the massacre, a seventh victim succumbed to his injuries at Evanston Hospital, officials said.
More than 30 people were wounded by the barrage of bullets that silenced the marching bands and prompted paradegoers to scramble for cover.
Katherine Goldstein, 64
Katherine Goldstein was a mother of two adult daughters, an avid bird watcher and someone who loved to travel, a friend told ABC News.
Betsy Backes said she first met Goldstein at a local community center north of Chicago when they were both pregnant with their second children. Goldstein invited Backes to her home and the two mothers began a close, 20-year friendship that ended abruptly when Goldstein was gunned down at the parade.
Backes spoke glowingly of her “dear friend Katie G.,” describing her as an “extraordinary person” and “everyone’s best friend” who was “always around for her kids.”
She said their daughters grew up together, and the families would go on adventures — all of them planned by Goldstein.
“No one could plan an adventure like she did,” she said.
On Halloween nights, she said the mothers would pass out candy at the Goldsteins’ front door while the fathers took the daughters trick-or-treating. Afterward, they would order Thai food and all sit together to eat.
“It is such a happy memory,” Backes said. “The little girls were so happy to be out with their daddies, and I was so happy to be with my friend, Katie, and passing out candy to the neighborhood kids.”
Goldstein was an avid bird watcher and loved visiting the Chicago Botanic Garden, Backes said. She said her friend was also a great cook, who made salmon for lunch and was always experimenting with new recipes.
“She would cook meals that were so adventurous and fun,” said Backes, who spotted a recipe notebook on the kitchen counter when she visited the Goldstein home Tuesday.
In it was a list of new recipes Goldstein had planned to try, including a Middle Eastern dish with za’atar spice.
“I looked down and I smiled because I thought, ‘Of course you’re doing that, Katie. Of course you’re doing that,'” Backes said.
Irina McCarthy, 35, and Kevin McCarthy, 37
Irina and Kevin McCarthy lived in Highland Park and were at the town’s July 4 parade with their 2-year-old son, Aiden, when they were both fatally shot, according to the Highland Park City manager.
Dana and Gregory Ring, who survived the shooting, told ABC News how another parade-goer found little Aiden alone, scooped him up and handed him to them in the chaos after the rampage.
“Every time I tried to ask him what his name was, the response he gave to me was, ‘Mama, Dada come get me soon. Mommy’s car come to get me soon,'” Dana Ring recalled in an interview with ABC News.
Unsure of what to do, the Rings took Aiden to a nearby fire station and the boy was later reunited with his grandparents.
Stephen Straus, 88
Stephen Straus was the oldest victim to die in the massacre, according to the Lake County Coroner’s Office.
His son, John Straus, told the Chicago Tribune that his father was born and raised on Chicago’s South Side and described him as “a product of Chicago.”
But he said his dad loved his adopted hometown of Highland Park, where he lived for decades and raised his two sons with his wife of nearly 60 years, Linda.
“My dad was just very much a Highland Parker,” another son, Peter Straus, told the Tribune. “He lived here, and unfortunately he died here.”
A grandfather of four, Stephen Straus enjoyed attending the Highland Park Fourth of July parade every year, Peter Straus said.
“I called him [on the day of the shooting] just to wish him a Happy Fourth of July and he didn’t respond, which I didn’t make much of,” Peter Straus, who lives in San Francisco, told the newspaper. “And then news stories started coming out about a shooting in Highland Park.”
Jacki Sundheim, 63
Jacki Sundheim, a dedicated congregant and worker at her synagogue, North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, Illinois, was shot and killed at the Independence Day parade in Highland Park, according to the synagogue.
In a statement, the North Shore Congregation Israel described Sundheim as a “beloved” staff member who spent her early days teaching preschool and her entire life worshipping at the synagogue.
“There are no words sufficient to express the depth of our grief for Jacki’s death and sympathy for her family and loved ones,” the synagogue said.
Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, 78
Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza was one of the slain victims from the parade, according to his family.
“My grandpa was a funny man. He’d always joke around and be playful with his grandkids. He arrived [in] the U.S. in the ’80s and worked around the Highland Park area for many years. He spent his last days swimming and fishing and being among family,” Toledo-Zaragoza’s grandson, David Toledo, told ABC News in a statement.
Toledo-Zaragoza was a native of Morelos, Mexico.
Eduardo Uvaldo, 69
The seventh victim to die from injuries suffered in the mass shooting was 69-year-old Eduardo Uvaldo.
Uvaldo’s granddaughter, Nivia Guzman, wrote on a GoFundMe page that her family attended the Highland Park parade every year.
In an interview with ABC News, three of Uvaldo’s four daughters said nine family members were at the parade when the shooting started. Uvaldo’s 13-year-old grandson, Brian, was shot in the arm and Uvaldo’s wife, Maria, was hit in the head by shrapnel, the family said.
They said Eduardo Uvaldo was shot in the arm and the back of the head.
“We just heard pop, pop, pop. We thought it was fireworks and then my sister saw the shooter,” Uvaldo’s daughter, Nubia Hogan, told ABC News.
Fred Castro, Eduardo Uvaldo’s son-in-law, said he also saw the gunman firing at the crowd from a rooftop.
Castro said he made sure other family members got out of harm’s way, then went back and stayed with Eduardo Uvaldo.
Another daughter, Susanna Uvaldo-Moncivais, told ABC News that she and her sisters, along with their mother, made the agonizing decision to have their father removed from a ventilator after doctors told them there was nothing more they could do to save his life.
But she said her father’s vitals remained stable and that her family prayed “for a miracle” that was never realized.
“He’s taught us how to be responsible,” Hogan said of her father. “My dad worked his whole life without missing a day. He always had the perfect attendance. He’s a good man.”
Eduardo Uvaldo was a grandfather of 13 and a great-grandfather of six.
“My grandpa is a kind, loving, and funny man who did not deserve this,” Guzman wrote in her GoFundMe statement.
