RICHMOND — A small assortment of burning candles remained on the bottom Monday morning after a gathering the day earlier than within the Richmond neighborhood the place Alonna Gallon lived.
Mourners had remembered the slain girl and watched as balloons flew skyward in her reminiscence, in line with Yuvonda Gallon, Alonna’s mom. Instantly after the discharge, Alonna’s 7-year-old son, King Walker, crouched down in entrance of the candles and started to cry.
“We’re all simply attempting to look out for him for now,” Yuvonda Gallon mentioned Monday morning. “My daughter’s life — it was all about her son and what she may do to provide him what he wanted and needed.”
Alonna Gallon’s life ended Thursday, when a gunman entered the Berkeley Toyota service dealership at 1025 Eastshore Freeway and fatally shot her. Her household recognized the 24-year-old girl to this information group Monday.
Inside minutes, police have been on the scene; 5 Berkeley officers confronted and fatally shot the person suspected of killing her.
In a posting on a web based fundraiser, Yuvonda Gallon mentioned the shooter was the daddy to Alonna’s 7-year-old son, King Walker. The web page, which was in search of $25,000, raised almost $11,000 in its first 24 hours.
“This tragedy leaves behind a toddler who will needn’t solely the assist of his shut household however of the group round him,” Yuvonda Gallon wrote on the web page, including, “as one may think about, shedding a mom so tragically is devastating for anybody, particularly a younger little one who’s as near their mom as King was to his.”
By cellphone Monday, Gallon mentioned her daughter labored within the service middle’s name middle and that she additionally held jobs at a automotive rental firm and a grocery retailer.
“She was quiet, however she did nothing however smile,” Gallon mentioned. “She had a million-dollar smile, as her boss on the service middle would say. Largely, she simply cherished her son. She was a single mom, and was prepared to do no matter she needed to do.”
Requested how King was responding to the tragedy, Gallon mentioned, “He’s up and down.”
She additionally disputed a joint assertion from authorities that referred to Alonna Gallon’s killing as “an act of home violence.” She mentioned her daughter had chosen to not be in a relationship with the shooter for a number of years.
The shooter, in line with Yuvonda Gallon, had been attempting to restart the connection after shifting again to California. Her daughter, she mentioned, had no such curiosity, and was making an attempt solely to co-parent with the person earlier than the taking pictures.
The taking pictures occurred about 11:15 a.m. on the second ground of the service middle, Alameda County Sheriff’s Workplace spokesperson Tya Modeste mentioned in a joint assertion from her company, which is investigating the police killing, and from Berkeley and Albany police, who each responded to the preliminary name.
Different workers have been within the service middle when the taking pictures occurred, Modeste mentioned. They weren’t injured.
