$485K raised for family in jet crash into home

Donors have given a huge Christmas gift to the surviving relatives of a Maryland mother and her two young sons who were killed when a jet crashed into their home earlier this month.

Television station WRC-TV reports a friend collected between 500 and 600 gifts and gift cards totaling $12,000 to $15,000 for the family of Marie Gemmell. Gemmell was killed along with her 3-year-old and 1-month-old on Dec. 8 when a business jet crashed into a neighborhood near an airport in suburban Washington. Three men aboard the jet also died.

An online fundraiser for the family on the site Crowdfunding for Everyone, meanwhile, has topped more than $485,000.

Marie Gemmell's husband, Ken Gemmell, and their school-aged daughter, Arabelle, weren't home at the time of the crash.