Hundreds Mourn Girl Whose Body Was Dumped on Hiking Trail

Mourners gather for the funeral service of Trinity Love Jones, the 9-year-old whose body was found this month stuffed in a duffel bag along an equestrian trail, at St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Hacienda Heights, Calif., on March 25, 2019. John Rogers/AP Photo

HACIENDA HEIGHTS, Calif.—Most had never met her, didn’t even know her name until they saw it on the news.

But moved by the tragic death of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found stuffed into a duffel bag and discarded on a hillside trail—like so much trash, as one mourner put it—people turned out by the hundreds on March 25 for an at-times joyous, at other times angry and frustrated interfaith service celebrating the life of Trinity Love Jones.