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BROKEN ARROW — A businessman has pledged to match up to $20,000 in donations to buy the property where five members of a family were killed and transform it into a memorial garden.

Mike Case, founder of Tulsa-based Case & Associates Properties Inc., will match up to $20,000 donated to the Tulsa Community Foundation to help the city of Broken Arrow acquire the property, it was announced Tuesday.

Five members of the Bever family were stabbed to death and another was severely injured in the house at 709 Magnolia Court in July 2015. The still-vacant residence was destroyed by fire last weekend.

The Bever Family-First Responders Memorial Garden that would be created on the south Broken Arrow property would merge with the adjacent Indian Springs mini-park.

The Federal National Mortgage Association, known as Fannie Mae, agreed to sell the property for $50,000. City Councilor Mike Lester, who is leading the effort to convert the property into a park, has opened a nonprofit account through the foundation to raise money.

He called the cash-match donation “a godsend.”