Update: Gathering Raises $2,000 for Boston Marathon Bombing Victim

As details begin to emerge from Monday’s tragedy in Boston, America is learning more about the people who died and were injured as a result of the attack.

Police have confirmed three people died as a result of two explosions that rocked the finish line at the Boston Marathon.

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Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager from Medford, Mass., has been identified as the second victim who lost her life in the Boston Marathon bombing.

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When D. Paul Rode read her story on the Huffington Post on Tuesday, the local businessman and philanthropist took action.

Rode’s post on Agave Kitchen Facebook page reads:

***Restaurant Employees of Hudson and area*** This Restaurant Manager was killed in the attack in Boston. Please join me in helping lay this woman to rest. She is one of us. Join me and my friends at Starrs Bar tonight at 9 p.m. to celebrate this woman we don't know that worked in the field we love. Please share so we can help her family out. I have contacted a friend of hers and we will deliver the money to her Father tomorrow. Please share with all you can in our line of work. We stick together, we have each other’s back, we need to help this woman out.

See you at Starrs tonight at 9 p.m.

“A bunch of restaurant people get together at Starrs every Tuesday night,” Rode said. “I wanted to call upon more people, more friends to give something, anything they can.”

The hope is to raise a couple thousand dollars to send to her Campbell's father.

If you can’t make it out to Starrs tonight, but would like to help, contact Drew Nelson and he will put the donation into a trust to give to Campbell’s father.

• Phone: (715) 381-8270
• contact@nelsonlindquist.com

Shortly after yesterday’s attack, Rode grabbed his flag and headed to the I-94 overpass for a few hours to support of the city of Boston.

“Everything was so new yesterday,” Rode said. “This makes for healing. All we can do here is watch the news play over and over and that grows old. I’m trying to brighten people’s day, get their mind off of it, while making sure not to forget what happened.”