WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — It might not be the weather you think of for gardening, but for people who gathered in Centennial Park in West Valley City Tuesday night, it was just right.

Residents planted 450 daffodil bulbs, each for one individual who lost their lives to gun violence in the state of Utah in 2024.

When the daffodil blooms, Siolo Toala won’t see pretty petals — he’ll see his brother.

“I lost my brother Malu in 2016 due to gun violence, so this is a space I want to remember him,” Toala said.

Nine years later, he sees the bulbs as a new start.

“I just thought that that's how things go. But because of my brother's death and because I was impacted, and now that I'm in the community, it's a little different,” Toala said.

Toala took that grief and turned it into action, working

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