‘It just hurts’: Grief-stricken family and friends gather for funeral of 1-year-old victim of hot car death

PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KGET) — Grief-stricken family and friends gathered Monday in Porterville to lay to rest the 1-year-old boy who died in a hot car in Bakersfield in late June.

It was mixed emotions as baby Amillio was laid to rest — both sadness that life was taken so soon but also outrage at how that life was taken.

“It’s hard to speak when you feel your heart’s been taken out of your chest,” said Katie Martinez, Amillio’s paternal grandmother…

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