Friends of Caden Tellier's family start GoFundMe page to raise funds for medical, funeral expenses

Friends of the Selma family who lost their son to a traumatic brain injury received at the Morgan Academy football game on Friday night have started a GoFundMe page to raise funds for medical and funeral expenses.

The page that was started on Saturday for the family of Caden Tellier, 16, has already raised over $60,000. 

Tellier sustained a brain injury in the third quarter of the football game against Southern Academy at home. He was taken by ambulance to Vaughan Regional Medical Center and then airlifted to UAB Hospital where he died on Saturday.

Friends said on the page that Caden was “best known for his kindness, generosity and love” and said he gave “of himself one more time to save the lives of others through the donation of his organs.”

“His legacy will live on and we thank God that we had the opportunity to love him and be loved by him,” the page said. “One way we can minister to the Tellier family as they grieve this tragedy is to cover all of their many medical, life flight, and funeral expenses and time out of work. Thank you for loving on this family as they walk this difficult road. Live like Caden.”