Sisters Mena and Hialle Keeble watched their mother die on Nov. 4.

The victim of the third homicide at Meadowland Apartments in Sioux Falls this year alone, Bonita “Bunz” Tawacin Keeble responded to a knock on her door at about 5 a.m., only to be shot by someone familiar with the family.

The Keeble family is close-knit, said friend and relative Sabra Greger during a candlelight vigil to honor Bonita.

Nearly 50 community members gathered outside the apartment complex under a full moon Nov. 5, with a drum circle, smudging ceremony, song and prayer while aunties, cousins and grandchildren held one another.

Mena was at the vigil with her 4-year-old daughter that night. The little girl had pigtails and stars on her pants and was carrying around a mini lantern for a grandmother she didn’t

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