More than one hundred people gathered in Lawrence Thursday night for a candlelight vigil outside Carol Flaz’s apartment building on Broadway Street.
That’s also where police believe she was killed.
“This shook the community,” said Linette Perez, director of community relations at the Lawrence Police Department. “You know this has been a pretty horrific case, family has been in distress for days since she went missing.”
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The mother of two was reported missing on Saturday.
Then on Tuesday, police found her body at a park in Haverhill .
Investigators say she was last seen on surveillance video inside her apartment building, walking towards the apartment of her neighbor, Cristian Montero.
He’s now in custody in connection to her death.
“We can’t see this as normal, this is hurtful this is painful, kids have been left without a mother, mom and dad have been left without a daughter,” said Perez.