{"id":425191,"date":"2010-03-13T18:36:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T23:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f9991db970c"},"modified":"2010-03-13T19:01:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T00:01:58","slug":"memorial-service-for-chelsea-king-held-at-poway-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/425191","title":{"rendered":"Memorial service for Chelsea King held at Poway High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f99f476970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Powayvigil\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f99f476970c \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f99f476970c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\"><\/img><\/a> A memorial service was held Saturday afternoon for Poway High School senior Chelsea King, the 17-year-old girl who was attacked, killed and buried in a shallow grave at a community park in the Lake Hodges area.\n<\/p>\n<p>The service was scheduled to begin about 2 p.m. at Poway High&#8217;s stadium. Students wrapped ribbons around 8,000 sunflowers to hand out at the service, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktla.com\/news\/landing\/ktla-poway-missing,0,5645458.story\">according to reports.<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>The honor student and cross-country runner went missing Feb. 25 after she went for a jog on the winding trails of Rancho Bernardo Community Park. <\/p>\n<p>Three days after her disappearance, registered sex offender John Albert Gardner III, 30, was arrested in connection with her death. Since then, Gardner has pleaded not guilty to murder with a special allegation of rape or attempted rape, and on another count of assault with intent to rape another woman in December at the same park. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Investigators also are trying to determine if Gardner is linked to the disappearance and death of Amber Dubois, 14, an Escondido High School teen whose skeletal remains were found March 6 in a remote area of north San Diego County. She disappeared last year on her way to school.\n<\/p>\n<p>At the time, authorities say, Gardner lived a couple of miles from where Dubois vanished near the high school. No solid leads had emerged for the entire year that she had disappeared until Gardner&#8217;s arrest, authorities said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Her parents helped in the search for King.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Ruben Vives\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Photo: People gather at a memorial service at Poway High School for<br \/>\nslain teenager Chelsea King.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Credit: Associated Press <\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A memorial service was held Saturday afternoon for Poway High School senior Chelsea King, the 17-year-old girl who was attacked, killed and buried in a shallow grave at a community park in the Lake Hodges area. The service was scheduled to begin about 2 p.m. at Poway High&#8217;s stadium. Students wrapped ribbons around 8,000 sunflowers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}