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Millions donated to toddler who lost parents in July 4th shooting

A GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign has raised more than $2 million for a 2-year-old boy whose parents were killed in the Independence Day shooting in Highland Park, Illinois.

Aiden McCarthy was unharmed but bloodied underneath the leg of his father when a stranger found him, according to the Daily Mail.

The toddler initially was separated from his parents — Kevin McCarthy, 37, and Irina McCarthy, 35 — during the chaos in which seven people were killed and more than two dozen others were wounded.

According to the Daily Mail, the toddler kept asking the strangers who helped him, “are Mom and Dad coming back soon?