Watkins Park in Mount Airy was more somber than usual Sunday as hundreds of people from the community gathered near the jungle gyms and the picnic area. Many of them held candles lit to honor the life of 13-year-old Mason Paul Kearns.

Mason's 15-year-old brother and his mother tried to pull the teen out of the water as he got stuck in the drain, just 20 feet away from the family apartment,