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Noah W. Gallegos

Age 12

Toano, Virginia

A student. A friend. A son.

He was a son. He was a friend. He loved to play catch outside with his father, and was a beloved member of the sixth grade at Toano Middle School.

“I know some people who are very close to him,” said Amber Wilson, a seventh-grade classmate. “He was a good student and he was good in school.”

Noah W. Gallegos, 12, was shot and killed in his house in Toano, Virginia, on May 2, 2018.

By Caldonia Dickerson · Age 15
Meet the Reporters

More than 100 diligent students

Favian Isiah Carrillo Duran

Respectful, shy teen did grandma’s chores

Francisco Puentes

Mom never received the happy news

Christopher Johnson

Making others better versions of themselves

Jayden Fondeur

His older brother found him first

Caydence Nicole Painter

Reading, dancing, playing. Siblings shot together.

Martin Duque Anguiano

An ambitious, bright boy, senselessly killed

Jonathan David Freeman Jr.

Debated anything, from music to Deflategate

Amariah C. Emery

On her T-shirt, a peace sign

Jo'Markius Fuller

Never to wear grandma’s scarves again

Kaileigh Lin Collier

Was “more beautiful than she knew”

Lorenzo Moore-Vaughn

About to start his senior year

Shondricka J'Nay Adams

Celebrating one night, gone the next

Xzariah Denecca Rice

Her father died in her arms

Martez Christopher Wade

“He wasn’t a statistic,” said mom

Telvin Goll

He wished for the American Dream

Jon-Marvin Revels Jacobs

He was on his way home

Ryan Amadeo Dela Cruz

Gone, two weeks shy of graduation

Jontae Billups-Brooks

An athlete and a music lover

Kevin Wilson Jr.

Star athlete with a bright future

NeQuacia Porsha Jacobs-Lewis

High school graduation, diploma, career — gone