Love rescues orphaned boy: Grandmother, school rally around 7-year-old who lost mom to cancer, dad to gunfire

EVER SINCE cancer took the life of David Atkins' mother when he was 3, his dad, David Atkins Sr., tried hard to be both father and mother to him - working two jobs, taking David to kindergarten and then to first grade every day at Saint Martin de Porres Interparochial School in Germantown, cooking fried chicken for the potluck suppers there, supervising the bean-bag toss at the Halloween party, showing his son the love of an intensely devoted parent.