Mourner after mourner lit candles Monday evening, placing them next to stuffed animals and toys at a busy roadside memorial in North Long Beach to honor a 3-year-old boy who had been killed there days earlier.
Police say Noah Hernandez Perez ran onto Artesia Boulevard near Rose Avenue around 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Paramedics rushed the small boy to the hospital, but he soon died from his injuries.
Two days later, dozens of people — mostly wearing white at the request of vigil organizers — gathered at the intersection where Noah was killed.
“He was happy, loving and full of energy,” Jhonny Martinez Coca, a friend of the family, wrote in Spanish on a GoFundMe for the child’s parents. “He liked cars, his bicycle and his soccer ball.”…