LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Friends and family of Amanda and Victor Frias Rosas attended a Monday night vigil held in front of the Smith’s store along Maryland Parkway and Silverado Ranch, where they were allegedly gunned down on May 12.
The victims’ families coordinated with their co-workers at Smith’s for the vigil. Employees were seen wearing shirts with the couple’s faces on them and handing out candles to attendees.
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“They were a blessing to the community, that will forever be taken and will never be replaced. They’re gone but never forgotten,” one speaker said. The speaker did not identify himself but said he knew both Amanda and Victor for 10 years. He spoke of Amanda’s generosity.
“My daughter would come into the store and walk to the floral department and look at the flowers,” he said about Amanda working at the Smith’s flower department. “[Amanda] would stop everything she’s doing and say, ‘What can I get you?’ and she would get her the biggest rose she could possibly find.”
Speakers include Rosas’s 18-year-old son, Anthony, who offered numerous prayers for the victims and vigil attendees…