#community-vigil

#community-vigil

The balloons -- we don't know where they are going. We are just letting them go, releasing them. I believe Raymond will get one of those balloons," said Daniela Ruiz, Orozco's mother. "...he never carried any bad with him. He carried the good. Because my little brother was so good," Raymond's sister Sabrina told the crowd. "His next career that he was trying to aim for was to become an EMT or firefighter. Those are all things that he did because he believed in service and helping others..." said Roy Orozco, Raymond's father.

People wrapped their arms around each other as they remembered Vanessa Whyte, 45, a vet originally from Co Clare, her son James, 14, and daughter Sara, 13.

Mark Walker, 52, his wife Sara, 50, and their son Johnny, 14, are missing after flash floods in Central Texas. Their daughter Ellie was rescued.

"He was a real one," George Arterberry said about Boomer. Arterberry, a teacher at Castlemont, had a classroom two doors down from Boomer's.

At the vigil for Pearl, Vallejoan Bridget Dougherty expressed the importance of community support, emphasizing the need to help those who feel they lack a voice.

Harsimrat Randhawa was an innocent bystander in a tragic shooting incident in Hamilton, highlighting the senseless violence affecting communities, particularly innocent students.