TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Dozens of people gathered in Topeka to honor an 8-year-old girl who was killed last week.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the vigil was held Tuesday night near the site where Ahliyah Nachell Irvin was found slain March 13. The child’s mother Angela Ortega cried as family members wrapped a large tree in Dornwood Park with pink, white, yellow and baby blue ribbons.
A Topeka man, Billy Frank Davis Jr., has been charged with capital murder, among other crimes that include kidnapping and rape of a child, in connection with the death.
Police said the girl was abducted from an apartment complex where she’d been living. Davis is being held in the Shawnee County Jail on $10 million bail.
