FOUR YEAR OLD LILLY GARCIA’S FUNERAL IS TUESDAY MORNING AT 9:00 AT THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH NEAR 4TH AND ALAMEDA NORTHWEST. LILLY WAS WAS SHOT TO DEATH LAST WEEK IN A ROAD RAGE INCIDENT ON I-40 AFTER HER FATHER PICKED HER AND HER OLDER BROTHER UP FROM SCHOOL. SHE HAD JUST COMPLETED HER SECOND DAY OF PRE-SCHOOL.
THE ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY CAME TOGETHER OVER LILLY’S SENSELESS DEATH .. EXPRESSING THE NEED FOR AN END TO THE CITY’S CRIME. PEOPLE TURNED OUT IN THE HUNDRED OVER THE WEEKEND FOR THE CANDLELIGHT VIGIL HELD FOR LILLY ON CIVIC PLAZA DOWNTOWN … AND MANY ATTENDED MONDAY NIGHT’S VISITATION AT THE CHURCH NEAR 4TH AND ALAMEDA.
