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CORCORAN, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The household of the teen stabbed to decease extracurricular of the Kohl's astatine the Hanford Mall Saturday nighttime has been identified by his household arsenic 17-year-old Lorenso Sanchez.
He attended Corcoran High School, wherever schoolhouse administrators accidental helium was a dedicated student-athlete and an outstanding subordinate of the community.
On Sunday, his friends and household gathered to big a vigil to retrieve his beingness and grieve together.
The aunt of Lorenso's woman says the stabbing is horrific, and the full assemblage is shocked.
"He was present to conquer the world. And it's conscionable bittersweet helium didn't get to finish," Mia Rodriguez said.
She said Lorenso's beingness was conscionable getting started. He played aggregate sports included football. She says helium wore the fig "7" and was moving tirelessly to get recruited to play astatine college.
"I didn't judge it, due to the fact that it's conscionable not thing you judge erstwhile it's idiosyncratic similar him due to the fact that helium didn't merit this," Rodriguez said.
Hanford Police accidental Lorenso was stabbed from behind, conscionable extracurricular of Kohl's astatine the Hanford mall.
Rodriguez says Lorenso's ma was with him astatine the mall.
"Having to witnesser and ticker him suffer his life. You know, it's not thing that a parent should spot and it's not thing you should person went through," she said.
Police person arrested a 15-year-old connected suspicion of murder. They accidental they bash not cognize what the motive was down the stabbing, but judge determination was a verbal statement betwixt him and a radical of teens. Police accidental video from the scene, arsenic good arsenic items recovered connected the 15-year-old, led to his arrest.
"I conscionable anticipation helium does get justice. And it's not a slap connected the wrist, due to the fact that nowadays that's what it seems like," Rodriguez said.
At the vigil, his teammates, friends and loved ones shared wherefore they loved Lorenso, and spoke astir the interaction helium had connected them, portion they mourned together.
Corcoran main Ed Larkin says it's heartbreaking seeing his students similar this.
"Right present our precedence is healing," Larkin said.
Larkin says enactment volition beryllium disposable for students astatine schoolhouse who whitethorn request it.
"This is not thing that we're utilized to here, truthful it's going to instrumentality rather a portion for america to get past this together," helium added.
Rodriguez had 1 last connection to share, to the idiosyncratic constabulary accidental took Lorenso's life.
"It conscionable wasn't worthy it. Not for him," she said.
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