Local police departments hold fundraiser for six-year-old battling brain tumor

The Biloxi Police Department and the Long Beach Police Department came together once again to help Hendrix, a six-year-old who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor.

His parents are both police officers here along the Coast. Volunteers came together under the pavilion behind St. Thomas Catholic Church in Long Beach to sell pulled pork plates with potato salad for $10.

Hendrix’s step father, Justin Branning, was at the fundraiser and says Hendrix was starting to get better, but his white blood cells plummeted and his stay had been extended. “It’s nothing I could have ever imagined in my life. I have older kids and younger kids. My older kids are stepping up and helping out, all the teenagers in the house. Everybody is kind of playing mom. Hendrix is the only boy in the house. Whenever it hits him, it hits me even more because he is the only other dude. It’s affecting everybody so much and you know, we are trying to keep that normalcy and be as normal as possible, but it’s so impossible in this situation.”

A raffle is also going on to help raise funds for Hendrix. For more information call Captain Thomas Goldsworthy at #12 228-385-3033.