$130,000 raised for broke single mom who donated $100 lottery win to shot police officer

After losing her job as a result of the ongoing pandemic and with just $7 left in her bank account, it looked like single mom Shetara Sims was having finally having some good luck when she won $100 on a scratch-off lottery ticket.

However, the selfless Kansas City mom then made the decision to donate all of her winnings after her 12-year-old daughter suggested that they give the money to the family of a police officer shot in the line of duty.

In an interview on Fox News' 'Fox & Friends Weekend', Sims explained that her daughter, Rakiya Edmundson, initially had the idea to donate the money because she knew that if her family didn't have money, then the family of the shot officer wouldn't either.

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Kansas City Police Sgt. Jake Becchina was critically wounded on July 2 after being shot by an assailant. The incident left Becchina hospitalized.

The 12-year-old told Fox: "Because my mom told me to care about strangers and then I thought about his family and how they might need to buy, like, food and they go and see him."

Shetara also revealed that after her other daughter was killed back in 2012, she received an overwhelming amount of support from the police, explaining that the detectives who worked her daughter's case "were like her therapists, fathers, and lifelines all in one."

So, according to Fox 11 Los Angeles, on July 10, Shetara selflessly and anonymously called the Kansas City Missouri Police Department to donate her $100 winnings.

But after being so overwhelmed by the mom's gesture, the police department couldn't let her good deed go unrecognized - so they tracked her down and did something amazing.

Not only were the mom and daughter invited down to the station to receive a well-deserved "thank you" in person, but the department also set up a GoFundMe for the mom, which currently stands at over $129,000!

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Writing on the Kansas City Missouri Police Department Facebook page, a spokesperson for the department said:

"Today, Shetara and her daughter Rakiya came to meet some of [the] coworkers of the officer who was critically wounded. They also were there during the shooting.

"Shetara and Rakiya are the ones who had little money, but after finding a dollar in a grocery store parking lot used it to buy a lottery ticket that ended up winning $100 and then decided to donate it to the wounded officer.

"They are the ones whom so many people wanted to help after hearing their story of profound selflessness. It took a while to find them, but we're so glad we did, and we're so glad they got to meet the wounded officer's coworkers and friends."

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Speaking to Fox and Friends host Pete Hegseth, Becchina said of Sims' gesture: "When someone calls us like this and shows us this kind of support, that really gives us the energy we need to keep going every day."

Truly a wonderful story, and proof that good karma does exist.