GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Family and friends gathered Sunday outside the Promenade at Pleasant Hill shopping center in Gwinnett County to remember 21-year-old Elaijia Whitley, who police say was found shot to death outside her job two days earlier.

The backstory:

Whitley was discovered in her car with a gunshot wound Friday afternoon outside the BioLife Plasma Services center, along Pleasant Hill Road, where she worked, according to Gwinnett County police. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

FOX 5 has reached out to the Gwinnett County Police Department for additional details.

What we know:

Loved ones returned to the site Sunday dressed in pink and carrying balloons to celebrate her life. They described Whitley as kindhearted and ambitious, with dreams of working in the medical fiel

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