Police are still searching for the people who shot and killed two teens in Burien Wednesday night.
Many in the community want answers as well. What is being done to stop the crime in their neighborhood? Why two young women, 14 and 19, were killed?
City officials showed up Thursday evening, hoping to answer some of those questions and extend help to neighbors in the community.
Mayor Jimmy Matta and City Manager Brian Wilson met with King County deputies to talk about what's working and what needs improvement. Matta wants people to know they can trust the police in his city not to deport them.
Both Matta and the newly elected Sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht showed up at the vigil to talk with friends and family. They hope mitigating that fear will open better communication and prompt people to call 911 before altercations boil over and more lives are lost.
"Our children need to have a safe community where they feel like they can just be children. And this saddens me seeing what happened last night," said Matta.
There have been three shootings in Burien this month, higher than normal, but police say gang-related incidents like Thursday's are actually down.
"We had an issue last summer where we had big increase in gang violence and we put together kind of an incident taskforce kind of group and they just focused on gangs," said Sgt. Ryan Abbott with the King County Sheriff's Office.
If you have any information about the crime, please call 911, or contact the non-emergency line at 206-296-3111.