Hundreds attend vigil for late Save Mart worker

Organizers of a candlelight vigil for late Save Mart worker Stacey Reid estimated there were about 1,000 people who attended the memorial at the Hollister store Sunday night.
Local residents Gail Hernandez and Nina Avila Lazaro, along with a Save Mart manager, put together the vigil for Reid, of Los Banos, who worked at the McCray Street store and died Wednesday.
While hundreds of local residents filled the south end of the Save Mart parking, Hernandez noted that Reid’s father, mother, brother, sister aunt, family friend and daughter attended the vigil. Also speaking were Reid’s supervisor and a Save Mart loss and prevention executive.
“I have to tell you, I was amazed,” said Hernandez, who had merely met Reid and was one of the last shoppers at Save Mart on Tuesday night. “I was truly amazed. I did not think it would be the way that it was.”
Hernandez said organizers have posted a Facebook memorial page in his honor that has hundreds of friends, along with pictures and video from the vigil Sunday.
She said the turnout Sunday showed how Reid “touched so many people.” His death remains under investigation.
“No matter how happy people appear on the outside, you don’t know what’s going on on the inside,” Hernandez said.
Lazaro called the vigil “beautiful.”
“It was really, really nice,” she said.