Dozens of family members and friends gathered on the shore of Lake Vadnais in the north metro on Saturday night for a memorial to a woman who killed herself and drowned her three childred earlier this month.
It was July 1 when 23-year-old Molly Chang killed herself and her kids, the the woman's body and those of of 5-year-old Phoenix, 4-year-old Quadrillion, and 3-year-old Estella pulled from the lake during a long recovery procedure.
"My grandchildren have always lifted me up until this point, and I don't know what to do anymore," said Chang's father, through an interpreter. "I'm heart stricken, and I hurt so much that I do not know what to say to the community,"
The drownings happened after the children's father committed suicide in a Maplewood trailer park earlier that same day.
The memorial took place at the spot where the children's shoes were discovered, hours before the bodies were recovered.