Elijah Smith loved the outdoors, especially riding motorcycles.

"I would tell them, yeah, it's too dangerous," his mother Sofia Smith said.

While Smith worried about Elijah's safety on the bikes, deadly danger found the 12-year-old boy on Nov. 15, 2024, when gunfire erupted at a vacant house party in National City .

According to his parents, he snuck out to the party, so he could hang with his older brother.

"There's not one minute of the day I don't think about Elijah," his mother said. "He's constantly on my mind."

A little more than a year after the crime, no one has been charged with the shooting that took her son's life and injured four others.

“I'm concerned that they're forgetting about Elijah. That kind of being put on the back burner. I don't want to forget about Elijah.

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