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Jul 2, 2015
4:44:48pm
Tim
Does this take the cake as the most disrespectful GoFundMe yet?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/07/02/dylann-roofs-sister-is-apparently-raising-money-for-her-wedding-and-honeymoon/?tid=sm_tw
http://gawker.com/dylann-roofs-sister-allegedly-starts-gofundme-for-cance-1715465254
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150702/PC16/150709873/dylann-roof-x2019-s-sister-appeals-for-donations-to-pay-for-wedding-honeymoon-after-church-massacre

From the Gawker article:

On Saturday, a woman who appears to be the sister of alleged Charleston shooter Dylann Roof started a GoFundMe page to recover the deposits she lost by canceling her June 21 wedding after her brother’s alleged massacre “destroyed [her] dream day.” Amber Roof’s page, which also sought donations to “pay bills, and to send us on our dream honeymoon,” was deleted this afternoon after raising more than $1,600.

Four days before his sister’s wedding to Michael Tyo was set to take place, Dylann Roof allegedly shot nine people to death in Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church. Amber and Tyo cancelled their wedding because—as the GoFundMe appeal puts it—the “media abused our privacy and published all of our wedding information and destroyed our dream day.” Also: “to mourn the lives of those lost.”

Ten days, the Tyos apparently decided, was enough time to mourn before requesting $5,000 from strangers “to cover lost wedding costs, to pay bills, and to send [them] on our dream honeymoon.” Ten percent of what they raised would, they claimed, be donated to Emanuel.
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