Vigil Held for Mother and Toddler Killed in Murder Suicide

Jamie and Jordan Vigil
Dance family gathers for vigil to remember Jamie and Jordan

Vigil Held for Mother and Toddler Killed in Murder Suicide 

Photo Courtesy Nicole Mery
Photo Courtesy Nicole Mery

WEST JORDAN, UTAH – June 9, 2015 (Gephardt Daily) Friends and family gathered at Dance Image Academy in West Jordan on Monday night to remember a mom and her little boy taken too soon in a murder suicide in Murray Sunday afternoon.

Jamie Salazar, 34, and her two-year-old son Jordan Reeves were killed by Jaime’s fiance Johnathon Reeves, 30, all of Murray, on Sunday, while Salazar’s three other children from a previous marriage were in another room.

Photo Courtesy Facebook
Photo Courtesy Facebook: Photo Taken by Touch of Sassy

Two of the three children who were in the home at the time of the murders danced at Dance Image Academy in West Jordan. Their friends from the academy, who consider themselves family, are still in shock over the entire tragedy and wanted to do something to honor their friends who lost a mom and brother as well as find a way to cope with the loss of Jamie and Jordan.

Jamie with her kids including Jordan. Photo Courtesy Facebook taken by Touch of Sassy
Jamie with her kids including Jordan. Photo Courtesy Facebook taken by Touch of Sassy
Photo Courtesy Nicole Mery
Members of Siennas hip hop team

“I heard tonight from my own babies things like ‘they don’t get to have their mom’ and  ‘their baby brother doesn’t get to grow up’.” said Nicole Mery, a mom whose four children all dance at the same academy.  “I pretty much felt speechless as our dance family gathered to honor one of our dance moms and her baby that were lost so tragically.  We came to show love and support to our dance sisters and their brother as they grieve with family over this nightmare,” said Mery.

Photo Courtesy : DIA Dance Mom Anna Lisa's Facebook
Photo Courtesy : DIA Dance Mom Anna Lisa’s Facebook

The vigil was organized by the owner of Dance Image Academy Dannielle Nielsen and some of the moms as a way for their dance family to send off final words to Jamie and Jordan and send positive thoughts and prayers to their friends whose lives have been changed dramatically.

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