More than 100 people gathered in Rehoboth Saturday night during a vigil for Kylee Monteiro , the pregnant teenager who was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend and buried in a shallow grave.

Monteiro, 18, was 11 weeks pregnant when prosecutors say her boyfriend, 22-year-old Gregory Groom, stabbed her several times and buried her on his property.

Prosecutors revealed in court that Monteiro sent her sister a text message saying that Groom had thrown her to the ground and strangled her.

"If I die, it was Greg," police said that Monteiro wrote to her sister.

The recent high school graduate was honored Saturday by her family and friends as well as classmates during an event called "Vigil of hope for Kylee Monteiro" at Redway Plain & The Veterans Memorial Gazebo.

A woman at the vigil

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