22-year-old Christina Grimmie was shot on Friday night at The Plaza Live in Orlando and tragically died from her wounds.
Her family knew her as a kind, sweet and talented individual; the rest of the world knew her as one of the most memorable The Voice USA contestants of all time.
After the singer’s untimely death was announced, support from around the world flooded in to Christina’s family and friends, with #RIPChristina quickly becoming the top trending hashtag on Twitter.
Christina’s brother, Marcus, has spoken publicly about his sister’s death, stating that her manager: Brian Teefey, had set up a GoFundMe campaign to cover the funeral costs and moving the family out of their house.
However, since the singer formed such close bonds with her fellow contestants, artists and most importantly, her season 6 mentor: Adam Levine РThe Maroon 5 front-man had other ideas on how to pay respect to his prot̩g̩.
Not only did he post this adorable picture on Twitter:
Behati and I are absolutely devastated and heartbroken by Christina Grimmie’s death. Our hearts go out to her family pic.twitter.com/y4OMkm0uXu
— Adam Levine (@adamlevine) June 11, 2016
Marcus actually revealed that Adam had called his and Christina’s mother, personally, to tell her that he will pay for Christina’s funeral cost and the flight to bring her body back to her family.
Not only that, but since the revelation, Christina’s family’s GoFundMe has racked up an incredible $150,000 and that number is still rising thanks to the generosity of her mentors, friends and kind people of the world.
Marcus uploaded this extremely moving post on Facebook:
‘I first heard from my sisters manager, Brian Teefey, that he will be making a gofundme to help our family move out of our current house and to take care of the funeral, and I figured why not, and I’m not about sharing that kind of stuff and I’m not a fan of handouts at all.
I found out this morning, that Adam Levine personally called my mother and said he will pay for the funeral and her plane flight, and I was blown away. Now a friend just told me to look at the gofundme page and I see it is at 100k. Words cannot express…;literally I have no words.
I promise both my parents and I will read every one of these personalized messages. I’m so blown away by everything right now. But all I can say is thank you. And Christina will be missed and never ever forgotten.
Love you Christina
https://www.gofundme.com/christinagrimmie
Please do not feel the need to donate anything at all. Please. Just leave a kind word, message or picture in the comments or message me and sign this change.org petition to help Christina possibly be remembered in the next legend of Zelda game, her favorite game of all time.
https://www.change.org/p/nintendo-name-a-npc-in-a-legend-of…;’
Christina’s tragic death came just a day before the Orlando mass shooting that killed 50 people and left 53 others in critical condition.
