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Loved ones said final farewells to a small child whose body was found left in a southwest Bakersfield home.  Three-year-old Serenity Gandara was laid to rest on Friday.

Friends and relatives said the death of the small child is such a tragedy.

"Serenity was our beloved Serenity," grandmother Renee Maese said.  "She came to us in this world, we cherished her."

The toddler's body was found Sunday in a home in the 5900 block of Summer Country Drive.  Her four-year-old brother had also been abandoned there.

The two were being cared for by their uncle and his wife.  Antonio and Carla Garcia were foster parents for the toddlers.

At Friday's funeral the children's parents wiped at their eyes, sitting in front of the small, white casket covered with flowers.

Pictures of Serenity were set nearby.  Maese said the family is coming together to comfort each other.  And they have special memories of Serenity.

Three or four men are wanted for shooting a security guard to death Sunday night at a shopping center on Edison Highway.

The suspects were disturbing customers at Mercado Latino, and security asked them to leave.

Two horses are dead after a truck roll-over on Highway 178.

Five people were taken to the hospital after their truck which was towing a horse trailer crashed; the horses were thrown from the trailer.

The truck rolled off the highway and into a field, but its not known why the truck crashed.

Police are currently investigating.

The customer traded in a car and figured the dealer paid it off.  But, now, she is being sued for the outstanding balance.

The customer who only wants to be identified as "Connie" said she traded in a 1997 Tahoe at Old Town Used Cars on East Truxtun back in 2008.

She bought a newer Tahoe, and says she had trouble getting the title for that car.  She finally gave up, and turned it back over to that lender.

But, now she faces a lawsuit because the lender for the '97 Tahoe hasn't been paid off.

"This has pretty much stressed me out, it leaves me with no vehicle," Connie told Eyewitness News.

Looking at the contract she had with Old Town Used Cars, it shows they took the trade-in, and it had an outstanding balance of $3,770.00.

Connie said she went to the DMV in 2008, and tried to get help.  At that point, she thought Old Town had straightened out the problem with paying off the '97 Tahoe.

The DMV did tell her O