Ashley Gjurich was in the middle of a eulogy for her slain sister, Nicole Santillanes, when a small hand reached up and squeezed her shoulder.It belonged to her 8-year-old niece - Santillanes' daughter - who had sidled up next to Gjurich when her voice began to crack with emotion.More than 50 of Santillanes' friends and relatives gathered Tuesday for a candelight vigil outside a South Los Angeles apartment building where police say the nursing assistant and mother of four was stabbed to death over the weekend by her estranged boyfriend, Richard Lara.
"Everything's going to remind me of her when I'm going to take care of her kids, because I know she would do the same thing for me," Gjurich told the crowd, wiping away tears.
"Everything's going to remind me of her when I'm going to take care of her kids, because I know she would do the same thing for me," Gjurich told the crowd, wiping away tears.
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