PORT ANGELES — Family and friends quietly cried as they crowded together to mourn the death of Michael Andrew Sindars.
Seventy young people were among those who filled Bethany Pentecostal Church to pay their last respects to the 16-year-old Port Angeles boy shot to death last week.
“Our purpose here is to have an atmosphere where people can deal with death, an untimely death,” said the Rev. Omer Vigoren, the officiating minister.
Michael was shot and killed with a .45-caliber Llama handgun on June 27.
“We pray for the young man that was with Michael that night, Tim Smith,” Vigoren said.
Smith, 17, is charged with first degree manslaughter and two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm.
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