Local families participate in regional walk

More than 9,000 people from across Southern California as well as two families in Ontario came together last weekend for Donate Life Run/Walk at Cal State Fullerton. 

Now in its ninth year, the event -- the largest of its kind in the country - reminds Californians to donate by becoming organ, eye and tissue donors.

Family members of Ontario native Frankie Sotelo, participated in the walk as team "Like a Hurricane."

The team was formed in honor of Sotelo, a 24-year-old salesman who was the victim of a homicide in 2008 - the killer stabbed him during a Halloween party and was never found. He donated his pancreas and both kidneys; one went to a young man of his same age, and another one to a law enforcement officer. More than 50 family and friends will be walking, including Sotelo's fiancée, whom he was going to marry the year he was killed.

Bryan Morales of Ontario, who died this past January and became a tissue donor, was honored by more than 100 family and friends who walked as part of "Team Bryan."

Morales' siblings: Jessica, Aubrie and Zach along with their parents Greg and Jeanne Morales hold and image of Bryan during Saturday's walk.