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The mother of Mikayla Miller told a crowd of hundreds at a vigil in their Massachusetts hometown Thursday that the 16-year-old’s death last month left her shattered, then demanded transparency in the ongoing investigation that has yet to conclude how the teenager died.

Family and friends gathered in Gaithersburg to mourn a man who was struck and killed on I-270 last month. ews4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Family, friends and other members of the community gathered in Northeast D.C. Thursday evening for a vigil to remember two men shot to death by an off-duty Pentagon police officer last week and to call for police accountability. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Protests outside the 7th District police headquarters after the death of Deon Kaye.

The family of 11-year-old Davon McNeal held a silent vigil outside the D.C. Superior Court. News4’s Aimee Cho reports the suspects arrested in the boy’s shooting death had a hearing.

A vigil was held Monday night at the Washington Monument for Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen who had been missing since April. Guillen had told her family before her murder she’d been sexually harassed. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

The family of Joaquin Oliver, a student killed in the Parkland shooting two years ago, held a vigil for the massacred students and protest for stricter gun control on the National Mall Friday.

As friends and family held a vigil for a woman killed by a hit-and-run driver in Southeast D.C., a car jumped the curb, nearly hitting the mourners themselves. News4’s Jackie Bensen was there when things turned dangerous.

A custodial foreman was named D.C. Public Schools’ staffer of the year for making his school feel like home. Meagan Fitzgerald reports.

Eighty-one people have died in the District thisyear “without the dignity of a home.” Advocates gathered Thursday night to remember those individuals. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

Friday morning the Grammy winner announced an indefinite work hiatus to devote all of her time to her family and their efforts to care for her father during his recovery from a recent life-threatening illness.

Thousands of people attended a candlelight vigil to pay tribute to the 20 people who were killed when mudslides ravaged a Southern California town.

Family and friends attended a funeral service Wednesday for the teenage girl who was brutally beaten as she walked back to her Northern Virginia mosque last weekend.

A local vigil for Nabra Hassanen is set for Wednesday, but vigils are planned all over the country.