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Vigil Grows for Teen Pushed into Traffic

Updated: Saturday, 07 Nov 2009, 9:55 PM MST
Published : Saturday, 07 Nov 2009, 9:20 PM MST

PHOENIX - Surveillance video shows a 15-year-old boy moments before he was pushed into traffic and killed. Now, the entire community is coming together to support the family of Francisco Elias and help identify the teens responsible.

His family is sure that it's only a matter of time before they're caught.

15-year-old Elias was killed last Tuesday night. Police say he got into a fight with three teens, and they pushed him onto 35th Ave in Phoenix. He was hit by three cars -- only one driver stopped.

Police are still searching for the teens and the two hit-and-run drivers.

"If they can help to catch these guys, so nobody else goes through what we are going through," says Elias' cousin Sergio Nino.

Nino says the entire community has offered their support -- even complete strangers. Family and friends have left behind candles, flowers, and stuffed animals in his memory. And Elias' friends from high school are organizing a car wash for his family. They hope that the more attention that is brought to this tragedy, the faster there will be justice.

"Justice is what everybody wants because it could be another family some other day by the same guys."

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