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Community Honors Edwin Jackson And Others In Candlelight Vigil

Families brought together by tragedy came together to remember.

“The shortness of their lives and the tragedy of their deaths grieve all of us,” said Colleen Sheehey-Church, National President of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

On Thursday night at Guion Creek Middle School, MADD, Uber, and the Indianapolis Colts hosted a candlelight vigil for linebacker Edwin Jackson, Uber driver Jeffrey Monroe, and all victims of drunk driving.

Jackson and Monroe were struck and killed on Interstate 70 in Indianapolis in the early hours of February 4th – and they weren’t alone.

“In fact,” said Sheehey-Church, “there were several other crashes that day and one close by here that killed another Uber driver as well, Blair Edmonds.