Queen Creek vigil honors Preston Lord

Community members gathering to light the night in honor of a Valley teen who was murdered and tonight it marks three years since Preston Lord was severely beaten at a Halloween party in a Queen Creek neighborhood. And he died just a few days later from those injuries. Fox 10's Nicole Christine is live from the neighborhood where many gathered to honor him. Nicole. Well good evening Mark and Ellen. So Preston Lord's family tells us that this is a way every year to gather on the anniversary in order to honor Preston Lord. life his legacy and the larger movement for change now associated with his name the tragedy is just as real today as it was three years ago for us as the orange Arizona sunset turned to dark sky Wednesday evening orange light continued to glow in a Queen Creek neighborhood during a light the night vigil for Preston Lord Wednesday marking three years since police say Lord was fatally beaten by seven other teens during a Halloween party. Lord's family says turnout at the vigil means the world to them. It's testament to the fact that teen violence is still prevalent and the community cares about it. Also present at the vigil, the families of Jeremiah Avias and Daniel Sublaski, two other victims of teen violence in the valley. The commonality is that we've lost children and that's a different kind of grief. I met Roy at the last vigil last year. He came up to me at the end holding a picture of his son and I said, what are you doing here? And he said, my son got killed. He said, I don't know what to do, where to go. I just am here. I've been to court with Olga several times. She's a single mom. She is very strong but still very broken. Meanwhile, the Lord family waits for justice to be served for several of the young men accused in Preston's death. Navigating the court system is very hard and it's always a moving target and when you think something is coming up and you're just going to start going to trial or start making progress on the case and then something changes and so we just try to roll with the punches. And while the Lord family continues to fight for justice in court, they also continue to advocate for teen violence prevention education not only in classrooms but also in every household. Tonight, live in Queen Creek, Nicole Christine, Fox 10 News.