INDIANAPOLIS — Just over a month after the owner of Pa and Ma’s Backyard BBQ was killed, his restaurant is about to be featured on The Food Network.
“The Food Network had reached out to my parents, and they said, ‘We’ve heard so much about you from your customers. What’s your story?'” Brockelle Nelson, George and Monica Nelson’s daughter, said.
WRTV The story started in 1995 with just $175 and a vision.
“In the last couple of years, he said, ‘I will probably not even get to see the fruits of my labor, but it’s coming.’ I said, ‘Don’t say that. I can’t do this alone,'” Monica Nelson, Owner of Pa and Ma’s Backyard BBQ, said.
WRTV Back in August, George Nelson Sr. was gunned down outside of his restaurant, located on the northwest side of Indianapolis.
“Every day is a challenge, but we get through it,” Monica Nelson said.
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“Because of him, cooking represents community, it represents family, it represents joy, it represents legacy, and it represents history,” Brockelle Nelson said.