Family of Rodeway Inn Shooting victim celebrates with vigil and balloon release

Family and friends gathered outside the Rodeway Inn where Angel Carter took her final breath last week.

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Tonight -- the family of last week's rodeway inn shooting victim celebrating her life with a vigil and balloon release.fox 55's mallory beard met with the family as they reflected on angel carter's life.

Trt: 1:27 it been two weeks since dawn hipshire lost her 19-year old daughter to gun violence.

Family and friends gathered outside the where angel carter took her last breath.

They had a daytime vigil and balloon release in her honor.dawn hips motherngel ngel looking down on all of u right now and she saying...these are my friends.

They still love me even when i gone.ngel carter was found bleeding outside of a room at the rodeway inn just a week ago.paramedics pronounced her dead when they got there.

Dawn motherre//angel o ma never at, she going to be forgotten.awn hips motherngel ange mother says seeing friends and family show up was a te name.t to angel dawn motherre//angel felt blessed and that angel was loved.fter everyone shared their special memories about angel, her mother dawn hipshire gathered the courage to show the words she and her family wrote on each of s motherine said mommy loves - you baby girl.

Never forgotten.ipshire lost a son not long before giving birth to angel.

Making her grip on to a memory as much as she an.dawn hipshire//angel motherngel was alive everyday.

I saw her all the time.

I called her.

I text but she still feels the pain .- of no longer having her daughter here with her.dawn hips motherngel ecau one of that my children that i gonna have to end up putting in the ground.ipshire says the balloons reached angel where she is now safe.flying high in the sky.

One of her favorite sayings.hey were going straight up, straight up to her.

And she was catching them... mallory beard fox 55 news.

Angel carter's family is raising money for her funeral expenses through a go fund me .

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