'Fist Bump Kid' celebrates 5 years being cancer-free

BOSTON — His favorite team, the Boston Bruins, may be eliminated from the playoffs, but Liam Fitzgerald, aka "Fist Bump Kid," is celebrating today.

He tweeted that he is five years cancer-free.

Fitzgerald went viral after video captured him fist bumping members of the Bruins several years ago.  As the players were leaving the ice at the end of warm-ups, Fitzgerald decided to stick his fist out at the players and got a fist bump from each of them.

Fitzgerald, who has Down Syndrome, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the age of 4.

In 2015, he was named Man of the Year by the Leukemia and Lymphoma society after fundraising nearly $150,000.

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