Updated on May 7, 2021 at 12:49 am
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The mother of Mikayla Miller told a crowd of hundreds at a vigil in their Massachusetts hometown Thursday that the 16-year-old's death last month left her shattered, then demanded transparency in the ongoing investigation that has yet to conclude how the teenager died.
The Hopkinton town common was packed with people who repeatedly chanted Mikayla's name and who were asked to reach out to District Attorney Marian Ryan's office to demand an independent investigation over what Mikayla's mother, Calvina Strothers, and other advocates say were delays in the probe and pushback against the family's search for answers.