Pueblo community honors people who lost their lives in Black Friday shooting

The Pueblo community came together Sunday night to honor and remember the victims of the Planned Parenthood shooting.

It was a cold snowy night in Pueblo, but Cristiana Reyes is one of the people who organized the candlelight vigil.

“You go to work and think that you’re going to go back home to your family and on that day somebody didn’t,” he said.

UCCS Police Officer Garrett Swasey, along Jennifer Markovsky and Ke’Arre Stewart didn’t come back to their families because they died in the Black Friday shooting.

For Pueblo Police Chaplin Rob Hernandez, Swasey’s death hit close to home.

“When I heard that the officer was down, it affected me very well…Even if we don’t know them and when one of them even if we don’t know them it still affects us because we know what they go through to protect the community,” Hernandez said.

The gathering also turned into a walking candlelight vigil on the Arkansas Riverwalk.

“It shows that Pueblo cares, Pueblo is in support of our neighbors in Colorado Springs,” Reyes said.

More than 50 people showed up to remember the people who lost their lives.