{"id":210787,"date":"2026-04-27T02:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210787\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:21:35","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-fathers-helping-fathers-parent-of-man-killed-in-2020-bridgeport-shooting-launches-nonprofit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210787\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Fathers Helping Fathers Parent Of Man Killed In 2020 Bridgeport Shooting Launches Nonprofit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The father of a Bridgeport man who was fatally shot is getting the word out about his nonprofit organization &#8220;<a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/fathershelpingfathers.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fathers Helping Fathers<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/connecticut.news12.com\/bridgeport-father-says-arrest-in-sons-slaying-brings-him-closer-to-justice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Nixon<\/a> says he tours the state to meet with parents to teach them how to be more engaged in the lives of their children.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">His son, 21-year-old Nyair Nixon, was <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/connecticut.news12.com\/police-arrest-made-in-september-2020-death-of-bridgeport-man\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatally shot<\/a> in Bridgeport in 2020.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It&#8217;s a blow that you don&#8217;t wish on your worst enemy. It&#8217;s something that you&#8217;ve got to fight every day to come back from. If not, you can go into a deep hole and become bitter and you can make a bad situation worse. So God put it on my heart to start something called &#8216;Father&#8217;s Helping Fathers&#8217; because there are not too many organizations out there that cater to fathers. I thank God for giving me the strength to take one step at a time to deal with this thing day by day,&#8221; Nixon told News 12 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Nixon says no parent is perfect but it&#8217;s important for one to do their best to play an important role in the lives of their kids.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">RELATED: <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/connecticut.news12.com\/man-arrested-in-connection-to-2020-bridgeport-murder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested in connection to 2020 Bridgeport murder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father of a Bridgeport man who was fatally shot is getting the word out about his nonprofit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-210787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}