LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — A local tattoo shop owner is using his childhood experience in foster care to help current foster children during the holiday season.

Robert Gonzalez, owner of Koolsville Tattoos, operates nine shops across the valley. His success story began decades earlier in the 1970s when his father died in front of him on Father’s Day weekend and he was placed into foster care with only the clothes on his back.

“When you get there, you’re just like a deer in the headlights. You don’t know what to expect, you don’t know why you’re there,” Gonzalez said. “It’s probably one of the worst feelings that you can have. I mean, you’re all alone. You don’t understand why. No one really tells you anything.”

Gonzalez spent the rest of his childhood in foster care, passing time with drawi

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