A vigil Monday night at the city’s Longfellow Middle School let several hundred people share the weight of two young brothers taken far too soon from their communities.
Two other teen boys, ages 15 and 16, were found outside of the house and taken to a hospital. They are expected to live. Police said that all the victims knew each other and some of them may be related.
“I’m here to remember, to console, to be whatever support I can for the family, the school, the community.” After spending the day at Berkeley High School, Ford Morthel was struck by an altar made by young people in the Garcia brothers’ honor: “I saw the community coming together. I heard stories about Jazy and Angel. I saw what I only can know was so much love for your two babies, that I only can infer that they were amazing.
“Thank you for talking to me,” Perez said. “Thank you for throwing things on the ground. And then you made me pick them up. Thank you for making jokes with me. You were like a role model to me. I always wanted to be like you the way you got along with so many people.”
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