

When a mother was shot and killed by a gang member's stray bullet while sleeping, her oldest son, Johnny Garay, who works
for a non-profit agency and coaches at-risk teens, took in his five siblings, David, 12, eleven-year-old twins Nidia and Efren,
Eric, six, and three-year-old Celina Cleto, so that they would not be separated by Child Protective Services. Although Johnny
and his wife Veronica had four young children of their own -- Christina, nine, seven-year-old twins Iris and Johnnie, and
Freddy, three -- he moved this now large family into what he could afford, a major fixer-upper in the South Central area of
Los Angeles, California, built in 1905.




