Chariel Osorio’s mother doesn’t want any others to go through what she is experiencing.

“I wouldn’t even give this feeling to my worst enemy. It hurts like hell,” said Maricela Ornelas.

She is trying to overcome the pain of losing Chariel, one of her five children, but even thinking back on the best moments can’t heal her broken heart.

The 17-year-old Osorio was one of the nine people shot at the “Rye Day” party on Saturday. He died at the hospital Thursday, having suffered a head wound in the shooting.

“The memories even hurt even worse, because you want to hug him and kiss him and smell them, because they’re your babies,” said Ornelas. “He was supposed to bury me, not the other way around, and now I have to bury my son.”

Ornelas says the morning of the party, Osorio graduated from Corcoran High School.

“He wanted to go to the Army,” she said. “He wanted to move with his dad. He wanted a better life. He finished high school and was like I got to get out. He wanted better.”

Thursday evening, more than 100 family members and friends gathered at the location of the party to remember their loved one who was lost too soon.

“He was so beautiful,” said Ornelas. “He was a happy person. Family always came first.”

“You all [saw] the people coming out, whether they are related or not, just coming together to say to the family, ‘We love you,’ ” said Y. L. Wright Sr., a minister at Tucker Missionary Baptist Church. “We can’t do anything, but we’re here to support you."

Community members say the violence needs to stop.

“United we stand, divided we fall,” said Wright Sr. “We have to stand together. When there’s unity, there’s strength. We have to come together and bring all this to a cease.”

Ornelas says she will even forgive the person who killed her son one day. But she won’t let his story end this way.

“He’s not going to be forgotten,” Ornelas said of Osorio. “We are fighters. We are strong. It hurts like hell, but I will not sit down with my arms crossed. There is going to be justice done.”