Aida Magdaleno, 19, Camarillo

Aida, 19, was on her way to realizing her parents' dream.

But no longer. She was among those killed Friday in the Metrolink train crash in Chatsworth.

A 2007 graduate of Moorpark High School, Aida had spent her summers taking classes at Moorpark Community College, doing volunteer work in her free time. She was two weeks into her sophomore year at Cal State Northridge, where she was majoring in sociology.

She and her older sister, Gabriella, had plans to eventually buy their parents a house, as a way of repaying all the sacrifices they had made for their children.

"She cared about everyone," said her older brother, Juan Magdaleno, 33. "She had an aura. She was very pure at heart."

Magdaleno's high school required 150 hours of community service, said her brother, but she far surpassed that requirement. She helped out at meetings of the Moorpark Unified School District and worked as a "reading buddy" for young children in the Moorpark-Simi Valley First Five program.

"She just really enjoyed what she did," said Sandi Lane, coordinator of the Moorpark Family Resource Center, where Aida worked for about a year. "She helped nourish the love of reading in young children. Every time she was with a child, or two children, she always commented on how much fun it was, even if the children challenged her a bit."

Magdaleno was traveling home on the train Friday to Camarillo, where her parents now live, to attend the baptism of her 6-month-old nephew. She'd left the Northridge station on an early train because she hoped to spend "a little quality time" with her nephew, said Juan Magdaleno.

After the train crash, Gabriella searched through the night to find her sister. It wasn't until the next day that the family found out she had been killed.

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Cara Mia DiMassa