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'I'm just devastated': More than 100 turn out to honor Parks and Rec employee shot and killed

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MILL CREEK - Members of the community gathered Saturday in West Philadelphia to remember a Parks and Rec employee who was shot and killed Friday.Tiffany Fletcher was preparing for students to arrive after school when she was caught in the crossfire during a shootout between two groups.More than 100 people came out to pay tribute to a woman her mother calls a beautiful daughter, sister and mom of three boys and, once again, beg for the gun violence in Philadelphia to stop.MORE HEADLINES:"It’s like she’s here.

She’s not here, but we can feel her spirit here with us," Fletcher’s cousin Elaine Johnson said.Tiffany Fletcher (Family photo)Johnson cannot believe Tiffany is really gone.

The 41-year-old was shot and killed Friday about 1:30 in the afternoon, while on her break at the Mill Creek rec center, after police say two groups of teens started firing.

Tiffany was caught in the middle."All I ask is for people to put these guns down. Just put them down," Johnson said."I’m just hurt.

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