7-Year-Old Twin 'Fighting With Everything He Has'

UPDATE Wednesday 9 p.m.: From Candice Edwards: "I wanted to update everyone on Romellos progress. He successfully made it out of his first surgery yesterday 10/5 and is stable. He is still in critical care and his care is being a managed by the best of the best. He is a very strong boy that is continuing to fight the fight. He is expected to have another important surgery on Friday."

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — A grieving Long Island mother who lost one of her twin boys in a horrific car crash on Sunday has offered an update on the condition of the surviving brother.

Saying that "your prayers are working," the mother of 7-year-old Carmello Carter thanked supporters for their well wishes. Candice Edwards said that her son Romello Carter, who survived the crash but remains in critical condition, again had surgery today.

"Romello went into surgery at 9 am and is still in surgery," Edwards wrote in an update to the GoFundMe campaign she organized in memory of Carmello Carter. "He has a few hours left but he is a rockstar and he’s fighting with everything he has."

The New Rochelle Police Department is still investigating the crash, which claimed the lives of 37-year-old Troy Carter, of Hempstead, and his 7-year-old son when their car slammed into a retaining wall near the Hutchinson River Parkway. Carmello's twin brother Romello and 11-year-old sister Tiara were critically injured in the crash.

Carmello Carter is survived by his twin brother and two other siblings, 11-year-old Tiara Carter, who was also seriously injured in the crash, and older brother Donovan, who was not involved in the crash, according to the fundraising campaign.

The twins were students at Landing Elementary School in Glen Cove. Carmello Carter loved to play sports and was on the Glen Cove junior softball team and soccer team, according to a GoFundMe fundraiser, which had brought in nearly $42,000 as of early Tuesday evening for the family of the victims.

"To know him is to love him, he was a very loving, caring, polite, energetic, fearless, amazing little boy," Edwards wrote. "He will forever be loved and missed. I truly believe he is no longer with us because God needed him for something better."

A GoFundMe campaign has also been organized in memory of Troy and Carmello Carter, by Troy Carter's mother.

The proceeds from each fundraiser will be used to help pay for funeral costs, hospital bills and other expenses incurred, according to a GoFundMe spokesperson.