SUMNER COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — A young Sumner County man received a car for Christmas thanks to several community members. With his own means of transportation, a positive road lies ahead.
Levi Sharpe, 18, recently graduated from Beech High School.
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“When I was growing up, I didn’t really have much,” Sharpe said. “My family didn’t really treat me right.”
Sharpe found a lifelong friend in school resource officer, Jason Ghee.
“Levi and I just became friends in the mornings, talking,” Ghee said. “Eventually he would come up and eat lunch with me every day.”
His former teacher, Wendy Lee, was also close with Sharpe.
“This Christmas meant so much,” Lee said. “It’s about Levi and it’s about all the other kids that just need that extra support. They just need somewhere to know that they can sit at a dinner table and they’re loved and our community showed that this year.”
Sharpe aged out of foster care this year. As of publication, he works at a Hermitage bowling alley. Before getting this car, he found rides when he could. The community decided to help Sharpe out by pulling together enough money to gift him a car and more.