Community remembers Lucas Hernandez on his 6th birthday
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After Lucas was found, LJ with the search group "Finding Lucas Hernandez" touched on the mixed emotions with the discovery. On one hand, grief came with news that the little boy was dead. On the other was a sense of relief with some closure the news finally brought to Lucas' family and many more who cared for the boy
"When I got out here, we all went through anger. We went through crying and as much as we wanted to find him and stuff, it was heartbreaking to finally have closure and an end to it," LJ said a couple days after Lucas was found.
More than six months later, similar emotions remain on Lucas' birthday. There's relief he's not forgotten nor unaccounted for, but grief remains for the young life taken so soon.