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Thousands Release Balloons to Mourn Jessica Ridgeway

by KREX News Room
by Associated Press

Story Created: Oct 14, 2012 at 11:11 PM MDT

Story Updated: Oct 15, 2012 at 7:52 AM MDT

WESTMINSTER, Colo.- More than 1,000 people gathered in Westminster Saturday to remember the life of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway after a search turned up the girl's body in Arvada.

The Denver Post reports most of the people who stood in a parking lot in the rain and wind had never met the fifth-grader.

Still, they joined hands and prayed together before releasing enough purple balloons that the gray sky was, for a brief moment, masked in Jessica's favorite color.

The girl was last seen beginning a short walk from her home to Witt Elementary School the morning of Oct. 5.

On Wednesday, authorities discovered a body in an Arvada park about seven miles west of her Westminster home.

They announced Friday that the body was Jessica's.

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