The community is coming together to support a Cumming police officer and his family after their 4-month-old son was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder and now faces chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.
Officer Tim Fausti, a U.S. veteran and the new school resource officer at Horizon Christian Academy, and his wife are preparing for what doctors say will be a year-long battle for their son, Gavin.
According to a fundraiser created on the family’s behalf, Gavin was born with Fanconi anemia, a rare disorder that affects the body’s ability to produce healthy blood cells. The condition has already led to early pre-leukemic changes and abnormal tumor cells in his bone marrow…