It was a night full of tears, hugs and love at the Cleveland Housing Community basketball courts.
Dozens of friends and family members came together to remember 30-year-old, Shantika Dunlap, a mother of four who was found dead Saturday in a dumpster on Country Club Road in Winston-Salem.
At the candlelight vigil in her honor Wednesday, there were just as many prayers as there were pleas for answers.
"I don’t care what you got to say man that’s blood, if you're from Cleveland speak up," Shantika's cousin, Chris said after the vigil.
"We're all Eastside born and raised, born and bred, if you got something to say, say something."
Another family member, Derrick Broadway, said justice needs to be served.
"I just hope whoever is responsible get what they get, I just don’t even know what to say."
Shantika's mother, Latonia Mayes, was too inconsolable to speak at the vigil, but when we spoke to her days ago she expressed her pain.
"She was a happy girl, she didn’t have a mean spirit, she did not deserve this," Mayes said. "Whoever did this, they was a monster, they was a monster because I’m quite sure whatever they asked her to do, she did it."
How Dunlap died and ended up discarded like trash, is still a mystery. A family member at the vigil said the results of Dunlap's autopsy were inconclusive. The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office and Winston-Salem Police told WFMY News 2's, Jessica Winters that information would need to be confirmed by the Forsyth County District Attorney's Office. Her calls and messages to the DA's office went unanswered Wednesday.
Pastor Johnell Hunter led the prayer at the candlelight vigil.
"Whoever did this we ask to come forward, whoever did it, who killed this woman?" Pastor Hunter cried out.
Mayes said she will now be the primary caretaker of her four grandchildren, ages 14, 9, 8 and 6.
"She's going to need to take care of the 4 kids, God almighty, so let's pray," Broadway said.