Many family members, friends and curious bystanders spent time at the makeshift memorial built around a light pole in White Center, only a handful of yards away from where 23-year-old “Sweetheart” was shot and killed on Aug. 16.

The memorial grew throughout the day, with balloons, photo collages and hand-written celebrations of her life and good byes sprouting from the otherwise dull gray structure at the corner of SW Roxbury St and 16th Ave SW.

Herald photographer Greg McCorkle took this slideshow in the early evening of Aug. 16.

Please click the photo above for a slideshow of images.

In addition to the street-level memorial, Sweetheart’s remembrance has been taken to Facebook, where a tribute page was created.