A candlelight vigil will be held tonight in downtown Concord to honor the life of a 23-year-old woman who police say died in a stabbing Tuesday.
Friends of Sabrina Marie Galusha are organizing the vigil, which will begin at 8 p.m. on Main Street near the State House. The vigil will include remarks from Galusha’s ex-boyfriend Richard Sawnson, who is spearheading the event in her memory.
“May we all try to let Sabrina’s positivity that she left on us brighten the world, because thats all she would ever want from us. To be kind to each other,” Sawnson wrote on the event’s Facebook page.
Investigators said Galusha was fatally stabbed Tuesday night outside the Penacook Place Apartments at 36 Pinehurst St. in Concord. The state medical examiner’s office performed an autopsy Wednesday and determined Galusha died of a stab wound to the chest in a homicide.
Her accused killer, Daswan Jette, waived his arraignment in Merrimack County Superior Court on Thursday. He faces alternative counts of second-degree murder in connection with Galusha’s death. He is being held at the county jail without bail.
Concord police and fire responded to a 911 call in the area of Swenson Granite on North State Street on Tuesday about 8:40 p.m., according to the state attorney general’s office. They found Galusha, fatally injured from a stab wound, 2 miles from where investigators say the crime occurred and 4 miles from Concord Hospital.
She was taken by ambulance to the hospital but first-responders were unable to save her life, authorities said.