WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) - Family members and friends have held a candlelight vigil in honor of a Maine woman who police say was killed, allegedly by her boyfriend.
Centralmaine.com reports about 50 people honored 29-year-old Melissa Sousa at a ceremony Sunday night huddled outside her Waterville apartment building.
Nikkia-Ria Vear, a friend of Sousa’s, says her love for her twin daughters “definitely showed through.”
Sousa was last seen putting her daughters onto a school bus Tuesday. She was found Wednesday wrapped in a tarp in the basement of her building.
Police say Sousa’s boyfriend, 28-year-old Nicholas Lovejoy, is accused of shooting her twice in the stomach.
An affidavit says Lovejoy said he shot Sousa in self-defense after she allegedly pushed him down a staircase and tried to shoot him.
Sousa’s funeral is scheduled Thursday.
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