Pizza restaurant's benefit raises $2,700 for family of Newport boy killed by trash truck

Pizza restaurant’s benefit raises $2,700 for family of Newport boy killed by trash truck

June 8, 2016 7:22 PM PT

A benefit at Sgt. Pepperoni’s Pizza Store raised $2,700 for the family of Brock McCann, an 8-year-old Newport Beach boy who was struck and killed by a trash truck last month.

Between 5 and 9 p.m. Tuesday, the restaurant on Bristol Street in Newport Beach donated 50% of its sales to the McCann family, according to Jennifer Frazier, one of the store’s owners.

As diners ate pizza inside, children and parents wrote messages in Brock’s memory on a banner outside.

The donations from Sgt. Pepperoni’s add to almost $80,000 raised as of Wednesday evening at gofundme.com/brockmccann.

Jeremiah Dobruck

Jeremiah Dobruck was a public safety reporter for the Daily Pilot. He first came to the Pilot as an editorial intern in 2009. After a handful of other media-related jobs, he was hired full-time at the Pilot as a copy editor in 2012. He holds a bachelor’s in journalism from Cal State Fullerton. He left the Daily Pilot in 2016.