Memorial

Neighbors gathered in San Ysidro to remember the victims of the McDonald’s massacre, 37 years later. Twenty-one people were shot and killed on July 18, 1984. At the time, it was the largest mass shooting in U.S. history. Southwestern College’s Higher Education Center now sits where the McDonalds was. “Like they say in the movie Coco, as long as people…

Thursday night, the community of Glendora plans to honor Kerry Welsh, a soccer star and top student, killed by an alleged DUI driver. Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, June 2, 2021.

Kerry Welsh, the 18-year-old soccer star and salutatorian at Glendora High School and first year Loyola Marymount University student who had earned a full ride to the school, was struck and killed by an alleged DUI driver on Saturday.

Teachers and the pastor at Aiden’s school say it’s a difficult discussion to have with his classmates, and so they gathered with their parents this morning to talk and to pray. Vikki Vargas reports for NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on May 24, 2021.

A memorial has been set up for the 6-year-old boy who was killed in a road rage shooting on a freeway in Orange.

Someone started a memorial for a boy killed in a road rage shooting on a freeway in Orange. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, May 21, 2021.

A George Floyd mural in Houston was defaced with a racial slur overnight Thursday, a little more than a day after the former police officer who kneeled on his neck was found guilty of murder in Minnesota.

At a national memorial for the more than 400,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris paid their respects to the victims. “To heal, we must remember,” Biden said. “It’s hard sometimes to remember, but that’s how we heal.”

It has been one year since a 16-year-old Saugus High School student opened fire on his classmates, killing two and injuring three others before turning the gun on himself.

The Pasadena City Council is scheduled to take up a recommendation Monday to consider creating a memorial honoring hometown hero Eddie Van Halen.

A celebration of life for San Francisco firefighter-paramedic Jason Cortez took place Tuesday morning at Oracle Park in San Francisco.

Hundreds are expected Friday to attend a memorial service honoring slain Federal Protective Service Officer David Patrick Underwood, scheduled for 11 a.m. at Pinole Valley High School in Pinole.

Hundreds of people lined up outside a church in Houston to pay respects to George Floyd. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who also paid his respects, said “George Floyd is going to change the arc of the future of the United States.”

Ben Crump, the attorney for George Floyd’s family, spoke at the memorial for Floyd and called for people to stand up to evil.

Memorial Day Weekend is the unofficial start of summer. But smaller crowds than usual hit the beaches this weekend because of social distancing. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Monday, May 25, 2020.