Fundraisers to be held for injured toddler

TEXARKANA - Family and friends of a severely injured toddler are trying to raise funds for his mother while she stays with the child in a Dallas hospital.

Blake, 2, was taken to a Dallas hospital on April 22. He remains in intensive care with a brain bleed, said his aunt Kaylee Ball.

Blake's mother Madison Ball is from Texarkana but Blake was with his stepfather in Dallas when he was injured, Ball said.

Kaylee Ball has started a GoFundMe account to help her sister with expenses.

"She isn't working because she is at the hospital with her baby boy. I know she will not ask for help because she is so independent but I will ask for her because I know she needs it," Kaylee Ball said.

To donate, visit the GoFundMe account on Kaylee Ball's Facebook page or at GoFundMe.com.

A live event fundraiser for Blake and his family will be from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Smoke Point, a restaurant located at 5309 N. State Line Ave.

There will be a bake sale with money going to Blake's family and a portion of Smoke Point's sales will also go to the family, said Owner Brian Ogburn said.

The fundraiser is being organized by Smoke Point and Brothers Keepers Motorcycle Club.

"We wanted to put something together and help the family out," Ogburn said. "It hits a nerve when it's such a small child," he said.

Blake's stepfather, Charles Edwin Brooks Jr., 29, of Atlanta and Dallas, was arrested Monday in Dallas on a charge of injury to a child with intent to cause severe bodily injury and serious mental deficiency or impairment, according to law enforcement.

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