Grief permeates scene

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name was Joe. Joe stared at one of the orange circles.
"She was right there in the street, laying in the gutter," Joesaid. "He carried her (on the car) 60 yards or so." A black,elastic headband was all that remained at that spot Monday.
Joe declined to give his last name. He briefly explained hisactions.
"When I arrived, we had plenty of personnel on the other victims,"he said. "You prioritize who needs help."
Brooks was conscious, he said.
"She was very disoriented; she was badly injured."
Joe didn't want to talk more than a minute or so.
"It's hard to see, yeah," he said. "I just wanted to come out andsee it again today."
Despite being right in the corridor of police, fire, Rialto schooldistrict and other civic organizations, the scene remainedunadorned until 11 a.m.
Then three friends walked up. They didn't know the victims, buteach felt a tug, something that drew them to the site after readingabout it in the paper.
Sanna Ok, 27, placed a bouquet of yellow flowers against the treenear which little Josslyn Dinoso-Brooks lay dying. Then he litincense. He closed his eyes and intoned a Buddhist prayer.
"I have a young daughter," Ok said. "It could have been me and her,walking down the street."
After praying, Ok grabbed at something in the gravel near the tree.
An inner tube for a bike tire, splashed in orange paint. Astretched hole where the valve was ripped out. Maybe from the tireof the bicycle baby carriage.
"Senseless, just senseless," Ok said.