Thirteen-year-old Keyla Salazar was one of three killed at the Gilroy festival shooting in Northern California on Sunday.
Salazar’s aunt, Katiuska Pimentel Vargas, told the Associated Press that she believes Salazar was shot with the bullet that might have hit the family member she stayed behind to walk with.
“Unfortunately, my niece Keyla was not able to make it and died at the scene. I have no words to describe this pain I’m feeling, Keyla you are an angel and we will miss you with all of our hearts. You were too young to be taken from us. We are all devastated and broken and need time to heal and process,” Pimentel Vargas wrote in a heartbreaking note on Facebook.“We want Keyla to be remembered as someone that is beautiful,” the aunt said. “She really cared a lot about other people.
Salazar, six-year-old Stephen Romero, and 25-year-old Trevor Irby were all killed when 19-year-old gunmanopened fire with an assault rifle that he purchased in Nevada earlier this month. Fifteen other people were injured and Legan was shot dead by police on the scene. It is believed that the shooter cut through the fence to enter the festival despite heavy security checks at the official festival entrance.
Pimentel Vargas added that Salazar’s family is “unable to comprehend the level of violence” that occurred on Sunday and hope that serious gun reform changes are coming. “We need, like, some type of, like, change, so we ensure that this doesn’t happen to another kid, that there’s not another Keyla, that there’s not another family that has to go through this,” Pimentel Vargas added to Buzzfeed News. “I don’t wish this on anybody.”
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