(Radio Iowa) – A public celebration of life event will be held next week for the three family members from Cedar Falls who were shot to death while camping last week in eastern Iowa. Cedar Falls Mayor Bob Green says he anticipates there will be a private funeral for Tyler and Sarah Schmidt and their six-year-old daughter, Lula. The mayor says the public event at Overman Park in Cedar Falls on Tuesday night will give the community a chance to share and, while not a festive gathering, it will be a celebration of remarkable people.

State officials have reopened Maquoketa Caves State Park to visitors, but the campground where the shooting happened remains closed. By this (Thursday) morning, more than 45-hundred people had donated nearly a quarter of a million dollars to the go-fund-me account for Arlo Schmidt, the nine-year-old boy who survived the attack.