Habitat Humanity also decided to build a home for Lee on the same lot.

“I could have done a holy dance, I tell you,” Lee told WFAA. “That was really, oh boy!”

As Habitat begins construction of the house, community members are also helping out with funding and labor skills. The community came together in September to break ground on the new home while celebrating Lee’s birthday.

“We’re there to partner with a friend to build a home and in a little way erase a big negative from all those years ago,” Yager said. “How can it not be, with all the hate and violence that’s been out there … to play a small part in a bigger story and hopefully a narrative that’s going in a good direction.”

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