Clovis educator's organ donations save lives after deadly attack

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Just 10 days aft his death, Geoff Bernardi - a beloved son, uncle and pedagogue - has go the savior of respective lives done organ donation.

"It's the 1 metallic lining successful each of this tragedy," said Bernardi's mother, Erin Adams.

Adams said she led the grant locomotion done the halls of Community Regional Medical Center arsenic surgeons prepared to retrieve her son's organs.

"I wanted to locomotion with him up of the party, which was truly hard to do, due to the fact that helium was truthful beaten, and past erstwhile they got to the OR wherever they were going to harvest the organs, that was the past clip I saw him. It's heartbreaking," Adams said.

Police said Bernardi, a well-known Clovis educator, was violently attacked by a alien extracurricular his flat analyzable connected Dec. 18.

His girlfriend, the sole witness, described the attacker lone arsenic wearing a achromatic puffer overgarment with a hoodie. Bernardi died from his injuries connected Dec. 20.

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Clovis constabulary said they are inactive moving to find a suspect.

"When a homicide happens successful Clovis, due to the fact that we don't person precise galore annually, it's each hands connected deck. Always. All of our detectives person been pursuing up 7 days a week since the homicide happened," said Clovis constabulary spokesperson Ty Wood.

Adams said Tuesday she hopes an apprehension volition travel soon, but adjacent that won't capable the spread near down by her son's death.

"I should not beryllium cremating my 37-year-old son. It's wrong. It was conscionable truthful backwards," she said.

Bernardi's organs person already been donated and received by patients, including an 8-year-old miss and a 21-year-old man.

Photos shared by his household amusement Bernardi arsenic they knew him - a household antheral who enjoyed spending clip with his nieces and dedicated his beingness to youth.

Adams hopes her son's emotion volition unrecorded connected done those who received his organs.

"Some judge that they instrumentality the traits of their organ donor, and I anticipation that they bash get immoderate of those traits from him, due to the fact that helium had fantastic traits," Adams said.

She shared the last connection she gave her lad arsenic she said goodbye.

"I emotion you and that I miss you and that I privation I had 1 much clip with him," Adams said.

Geoff Bernardi's household has acceptable up a GoFundMe page for anyone looking to assistance with his ceremonial services.