Remembering Lily Burk

On a hillside park overlooking Los Angeles, more than 400 grieving relatives, schoolmates and friends of Lily Burk gathered Sunday at Barnsdall Art Park for a memorial to celebrate the life of the 17-year-old who was kidnapped and killed last month near Skid Row. Sue Doyle in the Daily News.

The somber crowd wept as people listened to heartbroken friends and teachers of Burk take the stage to read poems, sing songs and tell stories of the artistic girl who was remembered well for her laugh, imagination and spontaneity.