Rockford’s Miracle Mile Care Fund for Don Carter Shooting Victims
On December 26th, three lives were taken, two others were wounded, from what police still believe was a completely random act of evil.
A lone shooter, inside Shooter s Bar and Don Carter Lanes in Rockford, killed 65-year-old Thomas Furseth, 69-year-old Mr. Jerome Woodfork and 73-year-old Dennis Steinhoff. The shooter also shot at a table of teenagers; a 16-year-old girl who was shot in her shoulder and a 14-year-old boy also sitting at the table was shot in the face. He is still under doctors care in a Madison, WI hospital with the bullet still lodged under his eye.
But his latest as a fundraiser was not something he ever anticipated being in his job description.
Sommer, who also serves as the Hononegah High School boys bowling coach, dove head-first into the fundraising game when six people were shot, three of them fatally, at Don Carter on Dec. 26.
âThere is no game plan for anything like this,â Sommer said. âWe are just taking this thing hour-by-hour and doing everything we can to rally behind the families of the victims. We have two really outstanding options for those that are looking to help out.â
On Monday, Sommer started a GoFundMe account entitled âDon Carter Lanes Shooting Victims & Families Ofâ, which will benefit all six families equally. The initial goal was to raise $60,000.