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“He was always making everyone laugh,” she said. She recalled when Arauz came to school wearing two completely different shoes in his rush to get to school and hadn’t noticed until she pointed it out. Navarrete and Arauz had known each other since middle school, but grew closer together as high schoolers and during the pandemic.

Arauz was a student at El Camino Real High School and former student at Esperanza High School.Īrauz’ mother Janet and brother Blake also were present. The vigil, organized by friends, brought together students from different high schools who met and befriended Arauz through his many circles.

She and at least 50 others huddled together on Friday in Yorba Regional Park, several miles from where Arauz was shot, lighting candles and laying flowers at the base of a large tree, and embracing one another.

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“I’ve never met someone as joyful and full of life,” said Celeste Navarrete, a classmate of Arauz. (Photo by Caitlin Antonios, Orange County Register/Southern California News Group) High school classmates and friends huddle together as they share memories about Danilo Ashton Arauz. Though his mother was perhaps his closest friend, Arauz built friendships wherever he went, whether at the skatepark, in the classroom, in online servers for video games like Fortnite, making music with other aspiring artists, or hanging out with classmates around his Anaheim Hills neighborhood where he went to school and lived for the past eight years.Īnd as police have declined to discuss the circumstances of the shooting, leaving many questions and gaps in the narrative, the community Arauz built attempted to fill the empty space by coming together on Friday to grieve and remember him. “He was always a mama’s boy, so they were like best friends,” said Goldstein, who is 14 years older than Arauz. An empty spaceĪ decade age gap between Arauz and his siblings meant a lot of time for Arauz and his mother, Janet, to grow close. Authorities arrested 18-year-old Zachary Pickrell and are pursuing murder charges. Police accused his friend of pulling the trigger and lying about it to officers by telling them Arauz had been hit by a drive-by shooter. Three days later, surrounded by his mother, father, brothers and sisters at Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, he was taken off life support and died of his wounds. 5, while at a friend’s home on North Holbrook in Anaheim Hills just down the street from his Glenview Avenue home, Arauz was shot.