{"id":324237,"date":"2026-06-30T03:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324237\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T03:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:46:36","slug":"fundraisers-aim-to-help-grieving-parents-of-5-year-old-boy-who-died-at-park-in-miami-dade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324237\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraisers aim to help grieving parents of 5-year-old boy who died at park in Miami-Dade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 29, 2026 at 12:32 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0June 29, 2026 at 12:47 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/U5PH3MXBXBCDLAMTFHDB7ZWNUE.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Two GoFundMe users are fundraising to help support the grieving parents of Garret &#8220;Gary&#8221; Leonard, who died on Friday in Miami-Dade County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two fundraisers were ongoing on Monday to help support the grieving parents of a boy who died on Friday at the Krome Motocross Park in Miami-Dade County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Five-year-old Garret \u201cGary\u201d Leonard was riding a little motorbike as he often did with his family when the driver of a Chevrolet Silverado truck struck him at the motocross park, according to deputies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel pronounced Garret dead on Friday night at the park at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/uacSJZWMcWfUbQNu8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/uacSJZWMcWfUbQNu8\">16665 Krome Ave.<\/a>, and MDSO\u2019s traffic homicide deputies were investigating the cause of the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe are coming together to support Garret\u2019s family with funeral expenses and to help them navigate the days ahead,\u201d Alejandro Acevedo wrote in a statement published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-garret-leonards-memorial\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-garret-leonards-memorial\">a GoFundMe page<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Acevedo remembered Gary as a boy \u201cwho brought joy to everyone around him, especially within the moto community,\u201d so he also wanted to create \u201ca memorial race in his name\u201d to honor him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Andrew Stelloh was also fundraising, and his hope was to help Gary\u2019s parents to be able to afford to take time off from work to grieve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cGarrett was such a sweet young man who loved motocross and was well on his way to becoming a great athlete,\u201d Stelloh wrote in a statement on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/in-memory-of-garrett-support-for-his-grieving-parents\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/in-memory-of-garrett-support-for-his-grieving-parents\">a GoFundMe page<\/a>. \u201cHe loved to show you how well he could ride his track in the yard at their house. He was such a sweet boy who gave the best little kid hugs with the biggest smile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Here are the fundraisers:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/27\/mdso-boy-5-killed-after-being-struck-by-pickup-truck-at-krome-motorcross-park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MDSO: Boy, 5, killed after being struck by pickup truck at Krome Motorcross Park<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related social media<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 29, 2026 at 12:32 PM Updated:\u00a0June 29, 2026 at 12:47 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandTwo GoFundMe users are fundraising to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-324237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}