By Joanna Putman
Police1
DECATUR, Texas — A Texas community is showing support for its police chief and his family in a special way, People reported.
Chief Delvon Campbell, a 20-year veteran of the Decatur Police Department, has a 9-year-old daughter named Kynadee, according to the report. Kynadee suffers from numerous medical issues, including respiratory and pulmonary problems, cerebral palsy and epilepsy, WFAA reported.
“The seizures started happening more frequently and they changed from the normal seizures she’d been having previously,” Campbell told the Wise County Messenger in September. “She’d been having multiple seizures pretty much back-to-back and none of the medicines were working.”
A doctor recommended that Kynadee get a seizure response dog to alert family members when she started having a seizure, according to People.
These dogs can cost between $30,000 and $60,000, Campbell’s wife, Ashley, told WFAA.
Members of the Decatur community created a GoFundMe page to help Kynadee. GoFundMe donations have reached $40,000 so far, with some people even going into the police station to donate, according to People.
“It’s not the first time the community has stepped up and helped us with Kynadee,” Campbell told the Wise County Messenger. “It’s really, really, really awesome to know you live and work in a community that will go out of its way to help one another.”