16-year-old Pedro Ortiz-Perez was shot and killed in Randolph County in 2024. A year later, his family met one of the eight people his organ donation helped save.

I was just exhausted all the time and I had a 3-year-old, so I just attributed it to my 3-year-old," Takas said. "Well, finally, one day my mom said, 'That's it, you're going to the hospital.' ...