With the help of Rep. John Conyers, family members of Stephen Tyrone Johns, the security guard fatally shot at the Holocaust Museum last week, can now afford to leave their Detroit homes to attend his funeral in Washington on Friday.
The Michigan Democrat arranged for nine airline tickets and hotel rooms for Johns' relatives after they lamented to a local FOX News station that they did not have the money or reliable transportation to pay their last respects.
"It is my nephew and I want to be there for the family," Martie Johns, the victim's aunt, told MyFOXDetroit.com.
An aide to Conyers, a Democrat, told FOXNews.com that the lawmaker made the arrangements because he was moved and wanted to help his constituents.
"Conyers made some calls and saw who would be interested in helping," the aide said, adding that the congressman didn't use taxpayer money or dip into his own pockets. He found an airline and hotel willing to accommodate the relatives.
"He did what he could do," the aide said.
Maybe this will help take the sting out of the fact that Conyers' wife, Monica Conyers, who serves on the Detroit city council, is probably on her way to jail for criminal behavior.
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