Members of the Prospect Heights community in Brooklyn gathered Tuesday night to remember a 73-year-old woman who was burned to death inside an elevator.
Friends and neighbors lit candles and prayed for Deloris Gillespie, who died Saturday when an attacker sprayed gasoline on her and set her on fire in the elevator of her apartment building.
The man charged with her murder, Jerome Isaac, told police he did it because she owed him money.
Those who knew Gillespie couldn't imagine how anyone could commit such a horrific act against her.
"This is not the way for anybody's life to be taken away from them," said a woman who attended the vigil Tuesday. "I hope he gets the maximum punishment that anyone could ever have in this life."
Gillespie leaves behind four children.
Her funeral will take place after Christmas.
