Mourners are remembering three of the seven people killed by the gunman who opened fire on a July Fourth parade near Chicago
Yesenia Hernandez, center, granddaughter to Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, who was killed during a Fourth of July parade earlier in the week in Highland Park., Ill., is comforted outside the Iglesia Emanuel Church during a private family viewing before the funeral service, Friday, July 8, 2022, in Waukegan, Ill.
“I want you to laugh,” she said, holding back tears. “I want you to each and every day put a little more joy and kindness into this world. Do not let this sadness, this fear, rage turn you bitter towards our world. The world is darker without my mom in it, and it's up to us now to fill it with a little extra laughter.”
“Thinking about what a good, giving, loving person he was, it makes the cruelty and the horror of his death that much harder to take,” he said."When I see pictures of him ... it really just sweeps over me, what we've lost, who I lost, my best friend ever." During a private family viewing preceding public services, a granddaughter left the church in tears. Family members encircled Yesenia Hernandez, trying to comfort her as she sobbed.
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