Candlelight Vigil for Shooting Victim

A candlelight vigil will take place this evening in a Spotsylvania County park for Heather Ciccone, a young woman who was found dead in her car late Sunday, according to a media report.

Ciccone, 21, was a graduate of Chancellor High School and worked at a local Red Robin restaurant, according to the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star.

The vigil is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. in Harrison Road Park, at 5917 Harrison Road (see map below). At 6:45 p.m., candles with Ciccone’s picture attached will be passed out, and they will be lit at 7 p.m. Then the participants will walk across Harrison Road to her family’s home, the Free Lance-Star said.

Anyone is welcome to come forward and speak, one of the event’s organizers said, and there will be snacks and hot chocolate.

Police said that Ciccone had been shot in the back of the head, and was found slumped over the steering wheel of her 2010 Kia at the end of a driveway on Piney Branch Road in Spotsylvania.

Anyone with information on this case is asked to call the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office at (540) 582-7115 or Crime Solvers at (540) 582-5822.