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Fernando Rosas-Sanchez

Age 17

San Diego, California

Sister smiles and thinks of him

He loved his brother before he had even laid eyes on him.

Anticipating his baby brother’s birth, he wrote on social media that Adam was “on his way to this amazing world.”

His little brother had just celebrated his fourth birthday when Fernando “Nano” Rosas-Sanchez, 17, was shot in the chest and died at Sharp Coronado Hospital in San Diego, California on April 24, 2018. His sister honored him with her graduation cap, pasting his pictures to it and writing, “I smile to the sky when I think of you.”

By Mayu Alten · Age 17
Meet the Reporters

More than 300 siblings

Lia Lin Collier

A light, “unrelenting joy” extinguished

Izabella Marie Helem

Brother shoots his sister by accident

Rashiya Melton

Joins brother, leaves behind her twin

Jeremiah Ascencio

Last moments spent cradling his brother

Jontae Billups-Brooks

An athlete and a music lover

Ty'Dre Shyheim Hailey

She didn’t know it was real

Yaleah Hall

Sister, daughter, dancer, since day one

Lorenzo Moore-Vaughn

About to start his senior year

Rashaad Izil Wisher

One brother buried. Then another one.

Kameron Johnson

He dreamed of college and cars

Jaquincy Jawan Ross

Wanted to buy her a scooter

Jayden Fondeur

His older brother found him first

Elisha Amon Cole

Dreaming big, working on his portfolio

Ryan Amadeo Dela Cruz

Gone, two weeks shy of graduation

Raydale Hill

Can no longer create his music

Ramand Kassadine Davis

Happy in his SpongeBob SquarePants jammies

Elijah Foster

Dope Boy Gang. One less member.

Caydence Nicole Painter

Reading, dancing, playing. Siblings shot together.

Shondricka J'Nay Adams

Celebrating one night, gone the next

Peyton Nicole Hurt

Still helping others, even in death