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A vigil was held Tuesday evening to honor the three people killed in a shooting at a Highland Park apartment building leasing office. Family, friends and neighbors gathered to remember Nansi Fuentes Zambrano, 25, Dena Silcox, 56, and Adam Wilwerding, 43, who were shot and killed Monday afternoon while working in the leasing office.
Silcox's parents said they're grappling with the sudden loss of their firstborn daughter. "We’re so shocked by this," her dad Bob Silcox said. "She did not deserve to go out this way." Silcox's family stated that she had worked at the Davern Park Apartments for nearly a decade. They noted that she loved playing the piano and always lived her life to the fullest. "She had a heart that was unmatched," her younger brother Erik Silcox added. "A fire in her belly. She had a passion for life."
Zambrano's closest friends were also at the vigil, and said the 25-year-old had worked at the apartment complex for nearly six years. "She's touched a lot of lives, and I hope she left knowing that," her friend Alexa Murray said. Murray was joined by other friends of Zambrano, including Estreya Velazquez and Byron Flores, who said Zambrano was kind, selfless and a friend to everyone. "She deserved so much more than what was given to her," Velazquez said. Her friends said Zambrano devoted herself to her family, especially her nieces and nephews.
Ashley Chester, who has been a resident of the apartment complex for roughly one year and whose mother has lived there for six years, said Wilwerding, known to many as AJ, was loved by all of the tenants. "I'm just so happy that I was able to give AJ his flowers while he was here," she said. "How good of a person he is, it showed in his character. So, being able to even enjoy him for the short period of time that I did, I'm thankful for that. For all of them, actually."
Chester remembered all three employees as caring and always willing to help. "They were just good people, really good people, and you can tell because there's residents that's been here for years, and that says a lot," she said, adding that neighbors are now leaning on one another as they grieve. "We're definitely together, and we're going to stay together," Chester said. "We're family now, at this point."
