Memorial for Seth Walsh

From AP:

More than 500 people attended a memorial service for a 13-year-old central California boy who hanged himself after enduring taunts from classmates about being gay.


Seth Walsh was remembered Friday night in Tehachapi as a warm-hearted teen who loved to laugh. His mother, Judy Walsh, says the family doesn't want to cast blame and wants the service to be a call for tolerance.


Walsh died Tuesday, nine days after he was found unconscious in his backyard. He had been in a coma.