AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Friends and family gathered in Aurora on Monday to remember the life of 23-year-old Lennard Dawson Jr. Relatives have identified him as the victim of an auto-pedestrian crash in Aurora last week.
A vigil was held in Aurora’s Highland Hollow Park, where loved ones lit candles and shared memories of Dawson.
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“From the time he was born, he would just smile, have this huge smile on his face as a baby,” his mother, Marcia Dawson, said. “And he never let go of his smile. Never.”
Police said they found Dawson just before midnight Thursday in a crosswalk along the Unnamed Creek Trail near the 2700 block of South Tower Road. Witnesses told police that three separate vehicles struck Dawson before he died of his injuries at a hospital…