After 6-year-old killed in drive-by, girls open lemonade stand in Royal Oak

The Brief

  • A 6-year-old boy, Rylee Love, was killed in a Detroit drive-by shooting while waiting for his dad inside his family’s home.
  • In response, three young girls in Royal Oak, including a daughter of Rylee’s teacher, started a lemonade stand to raise money for his family.
  • A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the shooter, as the boy’s mother pleads for justice.

ROYAL OAK, Mich. (FOX 2) After a 6-year-old boy was killed in a drive-by shooting late last month, three young girls opened a lemonade stand to help raise money for the family.

Rylee Love was waiting for his dad to come home and had just gotten McDonald’s when someone fired on the family’s home in Detroit multiples times, killing the young boy.

A teacher at Rylee’s school who lives in Royal Oak said when her daughter learned of the tragedy, she knew she wanted her summer bucket list lemonade stand to help the family.

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