ATLANTA — Family and friends gathered to remember a local attorney who was shot and killed in the middle of Peachtree Street while on the way to work.
Family members prayed and shared their memories of Trinh Huynh on Thursday night, humbled, they said, by the unselfish way she lived it.
Hear from her family on Channel 2 Action News This Morning.
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"I look at that photo and I know where that story went after refugee processing photo was taken. It's an amazing story," sister Ch Huynh-Kindland said.
Huynh was a Vietnamese refugee who came to the United States after the Vietnam War.
"She's just ... someone who never made excuses for herself," Huynh-Kindland told Channel 2’s Nefertiti Jaquez.
Her family members said Trinh was more than just a corporate attorney. They said she had a passion for life and helping others -- from her volunteer work coaching mock trials at Grady High School and assisting with refugee relief in Georgia.
“She was just so unselfish. She just gave, and gave and gave,” Dao Huynh said.
And when she wasn't giving to others, her family said Trinh lived in the present moment and lived life to the fullest.
She loved to dance, travel and joke around.
“She really embraced living for today,” Huynh-Kindland said.
Her family, friends and co-workers, who gathered at a vigil across the street from where she was killed, made it clear the night was about remembering and honoring the life Trinh lived -- and not the tragedy of her death.
The man who police say took Trinh's life, Raylon Browning, is now behind bars, charged with her murder.
But detectives said the case is still an open investigation as they try to determine the reason she was killed.
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