‘My baby girls are gone’: Mother of woman killed in Arboretum shooting speaks at vigil

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s been one yr since three folks have been shot and killed at an condo advanced within the Arboretum space of northwest Austin.

Household and associates of Amanda Broderick, her daughter, Alyssa, and Alyssa’s boyfriend, Willie Simmons III, gathered Thursday night time to honor their lives.

Police arrested Stephen Broderick in reference to the triple murder and charged him with capital homicide. Amanda was Broderick’s ex-wife and Alyssa his adopted daughter.

Whereas the vigil had dozens of attendees, Amanda’s mom, Charlene Ramirez, mentioned, “there’s so many others that simply couldn’t make it attributable to work and simply lengthy drives.”

Ramirez described her daughter as “lovable” and “an ideal mom.” She mentioned Alyssa, her granddaughter, “had her entire future forward of her.”

“She ought to be graduating. She ought to be going to promenade, and now I can’t see that,” she mentioned.

Alyssa and Simmons have been each athletes within the Elgin Impartial College District, with basketball being her sport and soccer being his.

“My child ladies are gone, however I’ll at all times carry them in my coronary heart,” Ramirez mentioned.