Ga. Boy With Genetic Disease Needs Kidney After Dad Kills Mom, Who Planned to Donate Hers
Audra Eaker died in 2016 without fulfilling her goal to help the son, now 13, who was born with a chronic kidney disease
By Jeff Truesdell November 20, 2019 02:15 PM
A Georgia mom who planned to donate a kidney to her ailing son was shot dead by her estranged husband — leaving the now-13-year-old waiting for the organ he needs to survive.
A campaign promoted on Facebook and GoFund Me by friends of the murdered woman now is drawing attention to the plight of Kincaid Eaker, who was born with chronic, genetic polycystic kidney disease and lost two infant siblings to the same condition.
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Kincaid’s mother, Audra, died on Dec. 27, 2016, when she was shot with a handgun by her husband, Darrell Eaker, as she drove the two of them away from a holiday party at a friend’s home, reports Patch.com. Darrell left the gun inside the Ford Edge SUV and walked off “without even attempting life-saving actions,†Woodstock, Georgia, police said in a warrant.