An Atlanta family says an online copycat hijacked their tragedy, falsely showing that roughly $16,000 had been raised for their 13-year-old son’s funeral, money they never saw. Mason Towler, 13, was struck on Interstate 75 near Cleveland Avenue on Jan. 29, 2026, and his parents, Salena Holmes and DeMarko Towler, say they scrambled to cover funeral costs while trying to understand what happened. As they were mourning and fundraising, duplicate pages claiming to collect donations surfaced online, and the family later discovered those pages listed inflated totals that never reached them.
What happened online
According to Atlanta News First, a family friend connected Holmes with Renee Sunshine Lewis, who then launched two GoFundMe campaigns on the…..