‘This Is Just the Beginning of Heather’s Legacy,’ Heyer’s Mother Says at Memorial

Heather Heyer's mother Susan Bro speaks at her memorial service inside the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 16. 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
 

With tears and defiant tributes, hundreds of purple-clad people packed an historic Charlottesville theater to remember the 32-year-old woman killed when a suspected white nationalist crashed his car into anti-racist demonstrators.

"They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well guess what? You just magnified her," Heyer's mother Susan Bro said to long and loud applause from those gathered at the city's 1930s-era Paramount Theater.

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