Mary Anderson could also be gone, however her city will always remember her.
The 23-year-old Harvard resident had final been seen late Saturday night time in Hudson, N.H., and she or he was reported lacking to the Harvard Police Department the next day.
The interstate search met with a devastating finish shortly earlier than 1 a.m. Tuesday when Anderson’s physique was present in her blue 2017 Toyota Tacoma, which was parked on Elliot Street in Brattleboro, Vt.
“(Harvard)’s very, very small. Not something that we’d expect to happen here,” Natalia Dutkewych, who arrange a GoFundMe drive for Anderson’s shocked household on Tuesday morning, advised the Herald.
By 7:40 p.m. Wednesday, a GoFundMe drive arrange for Anderson’s shocked household had reached $13,215 of its $20,000 purpose.
“We’ve already surpassed 50 percent of our goal which is extremely awesome,” Dutkewych stated. “We live in an extremely generous community and I know that posting it on social media, having the news post about it has been helpful. … I know that with everyone’s support we will probably exceed this goal.”
Dutkewych, 18, of Harvard, stated that her mom and Anderson’s mom work collectively on the identical actual property agency and the households had identified one another for the higher a part of a decade.
While Dutkewych is youthful — the identical age as Anderson’s youthful sister Maria — she remembers Mary Anderson as somebody who “always had a helping hand,” like when Anderson arrange a giant tent for Dutkewych’s highschool commencement occasion.
Anderson, who Dutkewych stated is a graduate of the Catholic Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Harvard, was working at a neighborhood Italian deli and likewise put her love for animals to make use of at an space horse barn. She was additionally taking school credit and dreamed of working in regulation enforcement.
It was Anderson’s athleticism that first got here to Dutkewych’s thoughts when requested to explain who Anderson was.
“Mary was very athletic. Mary loved going to the gym, she loved being outdoors, hiking. She loved the sport of basketball,” she stated, including that Anderson and her household additionally loved tenting journeys.
Anderson’s ex-boyfriend, Matthew Davis, was shot to loss of life by Vermont State Police troopers and Brattleboro Police after they situated him strolling in Brattleboro Tuesday night time and confronted him.
Police say that after a brief pursuit, Davis “pulled a knife and lunged at police who were seeking to speak with him regarding Anderson’s death,” in line with a Massachusetts State Police assertion Wednesday night.
Police are asking that anybody with data to share with authorities ought to name the Vermont State Police in Westminster at 802-722-4600 or present an nameless tip on-line at vsp.vermont.gov/tipsubmit.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”