They hesitated at first, but then they came from all over the church: young women in black shuffling out of the pews and down the side aisles to the altar, some of them sobbing.
The parolee shot and killed along with a Hofstra University student by police won praise from a state parole panel in 2011 before his conditional release from prison.
On Saturday evening, flags on the Hempstead campus were at half-staff and students held a silent outdoor vigil in front of a photo of the young woman. Surrounded by candles and flowers, they sang "Ave Maria."
Meriden police say they're investigating a home invasion in which armed suspects bound and gagged four victims and took two of them to Fairfield to rob a jewelry store.
Joshua Komisarjevsky said he tries not to think about the murder of a suburban mother and her two daughters, suffers no nightmares and has nothing to say to the only survivor of the brutal 2007 attack.
Authorities say the four suspects forced their way into an apartment on East 94th Street, then ordered a woman and her 9-year-old daughter into the bathroom.