Participants gather on shores of Lake Hodges to "Finish Chelsea's Run"

SAN DIEGO - Hundreds of people have gathered on the shores of Lake Hodges this morning to symbolically complete the final act that slain Poway High School senior Chelsea King set out to do -- take a jog in a scenic park.

''Finish Chelsea's Run'' is intended as a show of devotion to the memory of the 17-year-old straight-A student and a way for the community to ''take back'' the open-space area where she was allegedly raped and killed.

Beginning at 7 a.m., participants met near the lake and in the parking lot of Westfield North County mall on Via Rancho Parkway to catch shuttles to the site of...