AURORA, Colo. -- An Aurora man who hosted a charity poker tournament for the family of a toddler killed in an ice cream shop last fall has been charged with felony theft after police said he kept the proceeds from the event.

The story was reported by the Aurora Sentinel newspaper.

According to the report, Matthew William Keysacker, 30, was arrested earlier this week on a charge of theft by deception. Keysacker posted bond and was released.

Police said Keysacker hosted a tournament in December that raised more than $3,400 that was supposed to go to the family of Marten Kudlis, the 3-year-old who was killed in the Baskin Robins ice cream shop when a truck slammed into the building. Two women in the truck were also killed.

According to court documents obtained by The Aurora Sentinel, the Kudlis family never saw any of the money from the charity poker event.

Keysacker, who owns Suited Aces Poker, a company that hosts poker tournaments at local bars, told the Sentinel that he was not guilty of theft.

"I am fighting it from a standpoint of being not guilty," he said. "I feel that in the end, everything will come out and it will be seen that I am not guilty."

The Dec. 7 poker tournament at an Aurora Fuddrucker's restaurant brought in $3,455 through registration costs, gift card sales, donated tips from Fuddrucker's employees and auctions, according to the arrest affidavit.

Kudlis' father contacted police last month and told them he was upset because he hadn’t seen any of the money from the event, according to the affidavit.

Kudlis' father told police that Keysacker told him that his wife's credit card had been stolen and that he didn't have the funds to give to the family.