After Daunte Wright’s death, GoFundMe raised $1.04M; a year later, mother sued over son’s funds

What began as a public effort to support Daunte Wright’s family after his death later became a dispute over more than $1 million in donations. A GoFundMe campaign launched following Wright’s fatal shooting in Minnesota in 2021 raised $1,039,207 from nearly 29,000 donors. But in October 2022, Chyna Whitaker, the mother of Wright’s only child, filed a lawsuit alleging that her son had been promised a share of the money but received none. The Minnesota court complaint alleged that half of the fundraiser proceeds had been promised to the child.

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