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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

Jon-Marvin Revels Jacobs

He was on his way home

Martin Duque Anguiano

An ambitious, bright boy, senselessly killed

Francisco Puentes

Mom never received the happy news

Jontae Billups-Brooks

An athlete and a music lover

Jayden Fondeur

His older brother found him first

Martez Christopher Wade

“He wasn’t a statistic,” said mom

Shondricka J'Nay Adams

Celebrating one night, gone the next

Jonathan David Freeman Jr.

Debated anything, from music to Deflategate

Kevin Wilson Jr.

Star athlete with a bright future

NeQuacia Porsha Jacobs-Lewis

High school graduation, diploma, career — gone

Jo'Markius Fuller

Never to wear grandma’s scarves again

Xzariah Denecca Rice

Her father died in her arms

Ryan Amadeo Dela Cruz

Gone, two weeks shy of graduation

Lorenzo Moore-Vaughn

About to start his senior year

Kaileigh Lin Collier

Was “more beautiful than she knew”

Amariah C. Emery

On her T-shirt, a peace sign

Caydence Nicole Painter

Reading, dancing, playing. Siblings shot together.

Favian Isiah Carrillo Duran

Respectful, shy teen did grandma’s chores

Telvin Goll

He wished for the American Dream

Christopher Johnson

Making others better versions of themselves