Our Lady of the Pillar Catholic Church in Half Moon Bay struggled to pack in the hundreds of people gathered to mourn the death of Joaquin Dominik Jimenez Alvarado, the son of the city’s mayor, at his funeral this week.

The son of Mayor Joaquin Jimenez, the 28-year-old Jimenez Alvarado tragically died on May 25 after his motorcycle collided with a pickup truck at the intersection of Mirada Road and state Highway 1 in an unincorporated area of Half Moon Bay, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. 

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.