Vigil for Woman Killed in Greenland [VIDEO]

Nubble Lighthouse at York Beach, Maine was always Brittany Tibbetts' "go to" place, according to her friend Tara Villeneuve.

Four days after Tibbetts, 26, was killed by her ex-boyrfriend Cullen Mutrie during an armed standoff in Greenland where Murtrie shot Tibbetts before turning the gun on himself, the Berwick, Maine woman's friends and family gathered at Nubble Light on Sunday evening to hold a candlelight vigil.

More than 75 people held candles and sang the hymn, "Amazing Grace," after one of her friends, Stacy Beevers of Portsmouth, released several pink and black balloons high above the ocean. As evening turned into night, the vigil continued with more songs, prayers, hugs and tears among Tibbetts former classmates at Noble High School in Berwick, her co-workers at Hair Excitement at the Fox Run Mall in Newington and scores of other people whose lives she touched.

"We were best friends. We met in hair school and we were best friends every since," Villeneuve recalled as she fought back her tears.

Villeneuve said she met Tibbetts when they attended Empire Beauty School in Somersworth and Villeneuve said she and some of Brittany's other friends from the beauty school decided to hold Sunday evening's vigil.

"She was just the most happy, outgoing person," Villeneuve said. "She was the best person I knew."

Villeneuve said she also knew Mutrie and that he and Tibbetts were an "off again, on again" couple. Authorities say that Mutrie killed Greenland Police Chief Michael Maloney and wounded four other offices when they went to his home on 517 Post Road in Greenland and tried to execute a search warrant.

"He was a different person at some point in his life," Villeneuve said. "He was a good guy and he had a good to him that most people didn't realize."

Villeneuve hoped the vigil would allow people to see Brittany for who she was and know more about the life she lived before she died. "There was so much more to that girl. She had so many friends."

Before she died, Villeneuve said Tibbetts wanted to open her own beauty salon and that she had found a location. "She was very motivated and very driven," she said.

Aaron Whittier, one of Tibbetts cousins, said he and his family traveled from Potomac, Md., after they learned about her death. He said the vigil was a great idea.

"It definitely brings some comfort. It shows that she touched so many people's lives," Whittier said.

Tibbetts' grandmother, Ida Guptill of Berwick, said she wanted to be at the vigil to support her granddaughter, who she said was a star softball player at Noble High School who was inducted into the Maine High School Softball Hall of Fame.

Bob Merrill, Tibbetts uncle, said his niece always "lit up the room. She was always laughing."

Nicole Jackson made a framed photo that showed Brittany and her sister, Lindsay Tibbetts hugging one another on Brittany's birthday. Jackson said she was good friends with Lindsay Tibbetts and also hung around with Brittany. She wanted to give Lindsay Tibbetts the framed photograph so she "could remember the love and the good times they shared together."