Joint Memorial Held In Santa Ana For Teens Killed While Camping
SANTA ANA (CBSLA.com) — Family and friends were remembering two Orange County teenagers who were killed while camping at Yosemite National Park.
Dragon Kim and Justin Lee died Aug. 14 after a tree limb fell on their tent at the Upper Pines Campground.
"Unbelievable accident. Can't even imagine. Can't even imagine," said one attendee during Sunday's joint memorial.
The service was held at Newsong Church in Santa Ana, where Kim's family attends regularly.
"It's so sad. It just really breaks our heart. Just give all the love and support and prayers to their family. It could happen to anybody," said another attendee.
Kim and Lee shared a love of music and water polo. Friends of the victims signed a water polo ball before the service.
"Dragon was a very enthusiastic young man. He was just one of those kids you remember forever," said Jean, who knew him from a Sunday school class.
The Kapur family lived across the street from Lee.
"Always had a great smile and it's just going to be so hard on us. We would joke around a lot. He would come into our house and he became so close to my wife and I that we would call him our Korean son," he said.
"It was just hard, you know? This is like the first time I've lost someone who was pretty close to my family and me," said a friend of the victim's.
Neither of the grieving families chose to speak Sunday.
