Joining the Grace Tabernacle vigil group were a number of friends from Calvary Presbyterian church in the city's Pacific Heights neighborhood, an affluent community which holds the unenviable record of having the city's highest suicide rate.
Sure, she said, she had considered something dignified and quiet, like the silent vigil her group had organized on the night of the Florida Supreme Court's decision last week.
He held candlelight prayer vigils with Muslim groups to oppose the war in Iraq.
This month, people across the country attended full-moon, candlelight wolf vigils organized by groups with names like Howl Across America and Wolf Warriors.
After peaceful vigils by small groups of demonstrators earlier, Milwaukee police said on Sunday night they had rescued the victim of one shooting, who was taken to hospital.
Early hopes that federal officials will take over the case quickly fade, prompting the town's civic and religious leaders to hold prayer vigils, rallies, encounter groups -- anything to tamp down the public's growing fear and anger.
Prior to the vigil, a small group of Argyle fans marched through the city centre.
At one point, people chanted, "Love wins!" After the vigil ended, a group chanted, "Black Lives Matter".
We have to take control of our children," said Dawn Allen, who attended the vigil where a group of residents tried to force their way into the school before being turned back by police.
"We want you all to know what this black site is all about," one man who helped lead the group on the vigil march yelled to the group, largely made up of young people in the area who knew Loury, some of whom went to school with him.
During his trip, Pope Francis will hear confessions, break bread and lead a prayer vigil with several selected groups of young Catholics.
